Neymar involved in furious referee row after incorrect substitution

Neymar was involved in a heated referee altercation after being mistakenly substituted in Saints‘league sport in opposition to Coritiba.

The incident befell in the second half when Neymar went right down to obtain therapy for a calf drawback. At the identical time, the ahead’s quantity went up on the substitution board with Robinho Jr. on in his place.

Neymar did not see he had been substituted and went again on the sphere after receiving therapy. When he realized what had occurred, he confronted referee Paulo Cesar Zanovelli to inform him that left-back Escobar (No. 31) was the participant who ought to have left the sphere.

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The sport went on regardless of Neymar’s remarks on the sideline. After asking the Santos teaching employees for the paper slip they gave the officers for the substitution, he brandished it to the printed cameras the place it confirmed that it was certainly No. 31 who was purported to have come off.

Neymar furiously pointed a responsible finger on the fourth official however the substitution stood. Santos had been already 3-0 down at this level and the loss left them in sixteenth place.