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  • Neymar produces dazzling highlights during Champions League win

    The Red Devils’ progression will now depend on their trip to RB Leipzig in the final game of the Champions League group stages.

    Danilo subsequently deflected Marcus Rashford’s shot into his own net. Those strikes sandwiched the biggest flashpoint of the night, when Fred only received a yellow card for a headbutt on Leandro Paredes.  The midfielder was ultimately dismissed in the second half, though his tackle on Ander Herrera on that occasion looked clean. 

    Fred wasn’t the only United player to be involved in an altercation. Scott McTominay’s challenge on Neymar infuriated the PSG forward and they were seen having a heated exchange as the two teams headed off for half-time. 

    After the break, David de Gea kept United in proceedings on a number of occasions, including with a fingertip save to deny Mitchel Bakker.However, the stopper could only put the ball out for a corner and Marquinhos scored from the resulting set piece. 

    Kylian Mbappe raced through and almost put United to the sword in the final minute of regulation time. But the night belonged to Neymar and it was the 28-year-old who got the Parisians’ third. 

    The goal itself wasn’t spectacular, but he deserved huge credit for orchestrating the move with a superb bit of skill and a dribble into United’s half.

  • ‘Aching’ Neymar urges referees to ‘do their job’ as Brazil are left frustrated

    According to Opta, Neymar became the most fouled player in a World Cup game since England’s Alan Shearer against Tunisia in 1998, the Selecao striker having been illegally halted by Switzerland 10 times throughout the game.

    “I have nothing to say about it,” he said.

    “All I have to do is to play football, or try to do it. It’s for the referee to see it. I guess that will be normal [to be fouled regularly], we have to pay attention to it, but that’s something normal in football.”

    Brazil wasted several chances to snatch a winner late in the game, and centre-back Thiago Silva acknowledged the team could have been more clinical in attack.

    “When you see the moment on [the] replay, people celebrating the goal… I was seeing it again but it’s not for me to talk about it, there are four professionals working for that. They have to do their job.

    “We didn’t deserve to end with a draw. But we can improve, we can play better. But it was a match to show us that it won’t be easy.”

    Neymar, playing in his first competitive fixture since suffering a broken metatarsal in February, was seen limping at various moments in the game, but the 26-year-old assuaged fears he had suffered another fitness problem.

    “I was hit and it was aching, but [it’s] nothing to worry… after your body is cold, it aches a little more but that’s OK,” he said.