'Absolute disgrace': Messi and Neymar targeted in ugly $1b drama
Home fans have booed both Lionel Messi and Neymar every time they touched the ball during the team's Ligue 1 clash against Bourdeaux following PSG's dramatic exit in the Champions League.
PSG defeated Bordeaux 3-0 Ligue 1 at the Parc de Princes, but fans were still feeling the pain from losing to Real Madrid in the mid-week Champions League clash.
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Fans whistled Neymar even when he scored the second goal against rock-bottom Bordeaux.
Even when Messi embarked on a trademark run from deep and hit the post he got booed.
Kylian Mbappe, who ironically is tipped to join Real Madrid at the end of the season, was the only player spared whistles when the team names were read out before the match.
"I feel sad about what I saw today," PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino said.
"All of us were upset."
However, Pochettino admitted the players needed to accept some responsibility for yet another Champions League demise.
"We have to accept responsibility for what happened," Pochettino said.
"We share the disappointment of the fans."
Football world reacts to Neymar, Messi jeers
Regardless of their performance mid-week, the football world was still left in shock at how two legends of the game were being treated.
Messi has never experienced such disdain during a match, even during the tough times of his international career.
Former teammate at Barcelona, Luis Suarez, was quick to defend both of them and also took a dig at the fans in the process.
Suarez doesn’t agree with Messi and Neymar being booed at the Parc des Princes 😡 pic.twitter.com/sJsZQliywn
— 433 (@433) March 13, 2022
While some football experts defended the PSG fans and said they had every right to feel aggrieved from the performances from the team considering the estimated value of the starting XI is more than $1 billion.
Lionel Messi’s getting booed by some Paris Saint-Germain fans during today’s game vs Bordeaux, still disappointed after UCL fiasco. Same for Neymar. ⚠️ #Messi
Kind of unreal situation for Leo, never experienced before. pic.twitter.com/US5ZvUtvtH— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) March 13, 2022
Lionel Messi is the greatest player of all time. He has given us so many magical moments.
PSG fans are incredibly lucky to get a chance to watch him play for their club every week. This weekend they decided to boo him.
PSG fans are an absolute disgrace. https://t.co/abNY39qZJA— FootballFunnys (@FootballFunnnys) March 13, 2022
Messi and Neymar were booed at while Mbappe was cheered on during introductions 😳😳
(via @andionrubia) pic.twitter.com/YdOqEzsYlF— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) March 13, 2022
To PSG fans: Messi & Neymar are bigger than your entire club
— Danny (@DannyAaronsFUT) March 13, 2022
Neymar and Messi have earned nearly €80 million combined this season only to drop the worst form of their careers and get consistently carried by a player who’s leaving for free in months, and people are calling PSG fans plastic for being rightfully upset. Grow up.
— Zach Lowy (@ZachLowy) March 13, 2022
The PSG fans calling out their club ownership and players for the culture that has intoxicated them for years is probably as far from 'plastic' as it gets. There was a PSG before the Qatari ownership and it was built by those by fans.
— Colin Millar (@Millar_Colin) March 13, 2022
The two former Barcelona stars were also on the receiving end of some hostile chants encouraging them to leave PSG.
A banner read "Direction Demission" (Directors Resign) seemingly aimed at sporting director Leonardo and president Nasser Al-Khelaifi. PSG's ultras group — known as CUP — demanded in a statement on Saturday night that Al-Khelaifi depart.
The anger started after Real Madrid's epic comeback against PSG in the Spanish capital.
Down 1-0 from the first leg in the French capital, Madrid found themselves two goals down in the tie after Kylian Mbappe's first half strike.
It looked to be curtains for the 13-time European champions but Carlo Ancelotti's men - through the craft of former Ballon d'Or winner Luka Modric and the ruthlessness of Benzema - found another gear to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
with AAP
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