Kylian Mbappe tussled with FC Barcelona players in the tunnel of the Montjuic Stadium after his Paris Saint-Germain team knocked the Catalans out of the Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday according to Mundo Deportivo, which cited anonymous sources.
As seen in the first leg at the Parc des Princes, Mbappe didn’t have his best game in the return fixture but was far more decisive this time round.
Raphinha put the Blaugrana 1-0 up inside a quarter of an hour, but Ousmane Dembele and Vitinha tied the score 4-4 on aggregate ahead of Mbappe slotting home a penalty past Marc-Andre ter Stegen and then an 89th minute strike on a counter attack as Barca chased an equalizer.
This killed Xavi Hernandez’s men off 6-4 overall, and Mbappe already made news in the Catalan media after a clip of him appearing to tease Culers by shouting “Let’s Go!” in French after the final whistle went viral.
On Thursday, as the dust settles on another continental heartbreak for Barca, Mundo Deportivo reports that Mbappe was involved in a tunnel tussle with some of its players.
Mbappe is known to be fluent in Spanish, and reportedly shouted ,”This is football and it’s on the pitch where you have to talk”.
A few unnamed Barca stars didn’t like this and “went for” Mbappe. There was a “pile-up in which there were insults, shouts and pushes”, Mundo Deportivo explained, and a “tumult with more than sixty people” – players, coaching staff and security personnel – was formed.
Thankfully there was no physical damage according to the Catalan paper, but problems with Mbappe could be a sign of things to come given he is expected to join Barca’s bitter rivals Real Madrid on or after June 30 as a free agent after telling Paris Saint-Germain he won’t renew his contract with them.
Following the Barca win, Mbappe revealed he won’t change that decision and is now focused on trying to deliver himself and his current club a maiden UCL crown.
I have the dream of winning the Champions League with Paris, sure. It’s another step now against a great team and we’re going to try to get to Wembley.
“We played a great game as a group and we worked for six days with the idea of winning here,” Mbappe stated.
