Neymar Júnior, star of Paris Saint-Germain, expelled last Sunday during his team's defeat against Olympique de Marseille (0-1) for attacking the Spanish central Álvaro González, has been suspended this Wednesday by the Disciplinary Commission of the French Professional Football League (LFP) with two games.
This body also agreed to open an investigation into the accusations of racist comments that the Brazilian, 28, presented against the defender at the end of the league match.
Neymar published on his social networks: "The only thing I regret is not having hit him in the face."
Later he wrote a new message on Twitter in which he implied that the VAR had to have captured the aggression: "Now I want to see the image of the racist calling me MONO SON DE PUTA."
VAR hitting minha "agressão" é mole ... now I want to see hitting the racist image of me calling myself a "MONO SON DE PUTA" (macaco filha da puta) ... isso eu I want to see!
E ai?
CARRETILHA vc pune .. CASCUDO sou expulso ... eles?
E ai?
- Neymar Jr (@neymarjr) September 13, 2020
Álvaro González responded with a message illustrated by a photograph of him and his black teammates from Marseille.
"There is no place for racism," he said.
“Clean race and with many colleagues and friends on a daily basis.
Sometimes you have to learn to lose and take it on the field.
Incredible 3 points today, ”he added.
The disciplinary commission has also suspended PSG's Argentine midfielder Leandro Paredes with three two and his compatriot Darío Benedetto, from Marseille, with another.
Also Argentine Ángel Di María (PSG) will be summoned on the 23rd to clarify a possible spit on González, as explained by this body in a statement at the end of their meeting this Wednesday.
Neymar and Paredes have received a three-game suspension, although one of them with automatic suspension, which means, in practice, that they miss two games.
They met the first on Wednesday, as their team met Metz in the Parc des Princes, where they won 1-0 with a header from Julian Draxler in the 93rd minute. The most severe penalties have It was for the French Layvin Kurzawa (PSG, six games) and Jordan Amavi (OM, three games) for their mutual aggression during the match on Sunday night, in which there were five sent off.
In the 97th minute, and 0-1 for Marseille, there was a tangana in which Kurzawa and Amavi attacked each other, while Paredes and Benedetto also got into each other.
They all received red cards.
In addition, Neymar Jr was sent off after the VAR warned the referee of some images in which taking advantage of the stoppage of the game he slapped González on the back of the head, something he did on other occasions during the game.
The Brazilian star repeatedly accused the Spanish defender of having made a racist comment, specifically “cute son of a bitch”.
González repeatedly denied having made that comment and an uncle of his told a Spanish television channel that he actually called him “fool”, a word with a similar sound but a totally different meaning.
In recent days, both OM and PSG have defended their respective players on this issue.