“A fan came and shoved me from behind. Then he came in my face and tried to hit me,” said the Sevilla goalkeeper.
Sevilla goalkeeper Marko Dmitrovic got into an altercation with a PSV fan during the second leg of the Europa League round of 32 held this Thursday at the Philips Stadium, for which he had to hold back a person who jumped into the grass to attack him .
“I think it was discounted. A fan came and pushed me from behind. Then he came in my face and tried to hit me. It kind of smeared down the side of my nose. I wanted to hit him, but it’s never pretty. If he wants to fight, we go to an event or a sport like boxing. Football doesn’t deserve these things. There is always a fan who is drunk or crazy who jumps. That shouldn’t have happened and I hope they punish him,” the player said in statements to Movistar Plus.
His coach, Jorge Sampaoli, for his part, also condemned the events, describing it as “a pity” that the match was not stopped. “It’s a pity that the match went on. These events need to be properly sanctioned because otherwise it will happen again and it will happen again. You have to know when it’s time to stop these kinds of circumstances where people think they are participating in a show that belongs only to the footballers,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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