Neymar after PSG-Basaksehir incident: "I should have stopped Marseille game"

This week will be remembered in European football for the racist incident which forced the match between PSG and Istanbul Basaksehir to be postponed by a day. 

Neymar, who had a brilliant game in the remaining 77 minutes of the game, brought back memories of what happened with Alvaro Gonzalez at the start of the season. 

The Brazilian for PSG got into a spat with the Spanish central defender after comments which have not quite been cleared up. Neymar defended that he had called him "monkey" and "son of a b**ch", but the Marseille central defender denied it. 

After the thrashing against Istanbul Basaksehir, Neymar remembered that episode: "It's a serious incident and very delicate. Unfortunately, it has happened and it's annoying. It happened to me at the start of the season. I know it's not normal to suffer something like this and it is something in the past, but we have to do this. It is something which came into my head and I should have stopped the match then."

It is worth remembering that, after what happened in that match, the LFP investigated the incident, but then cleared both players due to a lack of evidence.