{"id":342212,"date":"2026-03-12T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342212\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:31:07","slug":"chelseas-neto-apologises-for-pushing-a-ball-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342212\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea’s Neto apologises for pushing a ball boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea winger Pedro Neto apologised for pushing a ball boy during Wednesday’s 5-2 Champions League defeat to Paris St Germain<\/a>, an incident that added to \u2060a chaotic end to the visitors’ late collapse.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old shoved the ball boy in stoppage time at the Parc des Princes, sending him into a chair and triggering a confrontation between players.<\/p>\n

“I want to apologise to the ball boy,” Neto told TNT Sports. “I have already spoken to him.”<\/p>\n

“We were losing and in the emotion of the game I wanted to get the ball fast \u200cand I gave him \u2060a little push.<\/p>\n

“I’m not like this. It was in the heat of the moment and I want to apologise. I gave him my shirt. I’m really sorry about it – I feel I have to apologise to him … He could see what had \u200chappened and was happy with the situation.”<\/p>\n

Head coach Liam Rosenior also apologised for the incident.<\/p>\n

“If there was anything \u2060from our side that was wrong or out of order, I \u200capologise on behalf of the club,” he said.<\/p>\n

Luis Enrique’s side twice \u2060went ahead \u200cthrough Bradley Barcola and Ousmane Dembele but were pegged back each time by Malo Gusto and Enzo Fernandez, before Vitinha and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, with a double, netted three late \u2060goals to put the hosts in control of the tie.<\/p>\n

The visitors’ disappointment was \u2060evident at full time, with goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen attempting to head straight down the tunnel before Robert Sanchez urged him back to applaud the travelling supporters.<\/p>\n

Chelsea will play Newcastle United on Saturday in the Premier League before hosting PSG on Tuesday in the second leg of the last-16 \u200ctie in the Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea winger Pedro Neto apologised for pushing a ball boy during Wednesday’s 5-2 Champions League defeat to Paris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-342212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}