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Real reason why Neymar, Mbappe and the PSG squad mocked Erling Haaland

Archie Blade
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Real reason why Neymar, Mbappe and the PSG squad mocked Erling Haaland

Real reason why Neymar, Mbappe and the PSG squad mocked Erling Haaland after their UCL round of 16 victory over Borussia Dortmund.

Paris Saint-Germain sent German outfit Borussia Dortmund out of the Champions League with a 2-0 victory at the Parc de Princess. The French champions move to the quarter-finals after winning the tie, 3-2 on aggregate. Despite the quality on the pitch from both sides, the major news coming from the match has been the events after the game.

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PSG opened the scoring in the 28th minute of the match through Neymar. The Brazilian then mimicked Dortmund striker Haaland’s ‘Zen’ celebration.


The celebration was once again repeated, this time however, by the entire squad following the final whistle.


That was far from the end of it, with the squad, led by Kylian Mbappe, mocking the teenager once again in their dressing room.


Neymar then posted an image of him doing the celebration on Instagram with the caption: ‘Paris our city, not yours.’

That begs the question why were PSG so hostile to an up and coming teenager?

Real reason why Neymar, Mbappe and the PSG squad mocked Erling Haaland

The backdrop for all the events that followed the match actually happened well before the game had even started. What seems to be an act of bullying on the part of the PSG players, was in actuality an act of retaliation for an image posted by the Norwegian on snapchat captioned: ‘Paris is my city’.

This makes sense as to why the Parisians were so irked with the youngster and it showed in their performance. Although, you are well within your rights to wonder if they maybe went a little too far in their obsession with making a fool out of Haaland.

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Archie Blade

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Archie is a WWE and UFC Editor/Author at the SportsRush. Like most combat sports enthusiasts, his passion for watching people fight began with WWE when he witnessed a young Brock Lesnar massacre Hulk Hogan back in 2002. This very passion soon branched out to boxing and mixed martial arts. Over the years he fell in love with the theatrics that preceded the bell and the poetic carnage that followed after. Each bruise a story to tell, each wound a song of struggle, his greatest desire is to be there to witness it all. His favorite wrestler is Shawn Michaels and he believes that GSP is the greatest to ever step foot inside the octagon. Apart from wrestling, he is also fond of poetry and music.

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