The nasty tackle suffered by Kylian Mbappé earned its author, Lilian Brassier, an avalanche of insulting, even racist, comments.
After two failures in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France, PSG will be in the quarter-finals this year. Facing Stade Brestois at the Parc des Princes one week before their round of 16 match in the Champions League, the capital club won 3-1.
The French champions were once again able to count on Kylian Mbappé, author of the opening score after half an hour of play, his 30e goal of the season, a few minutes before Danilo Pereira doubled the lead. But the meeting almost turned into a disaster for the Parisian striker. The fault of a nasty sole of Lilian Brassier at the 68e minute which left him on the ground for many minutes.
And if the former Monegasque was finally able to get up and finish the match, it was with a grimace that he returned to the locker room at the end of the match. Enough to make his presence against Real Sociedad somewhat uncertain. “He took a big hit to the ankle, but he was able to finish the match, and I don’t think it was very serious”nevertheless assured Luis Enrique, wanting to be reassuring.
Racist comments
However, Lilian Brassier suffered a wave of cyberharassment in the wake of the action, suffering numerous insults and derogatory comments. “Assassin”, “Butcher”, “We wish you the crusaders”, “Enc***”, these are some of the comments that flourished on his Instagram account. Above all, the Breton defender had to face numerous racist comments, “Stupid Monkey” or “Dirty Monkey”.
As soon as the match ended, Lilian Brassier took care to make her mea culpa. “I blame myself, I hope for his sake it’s nothing serious. It’s part of football. I wanted to intervene on the ball directly at the feet unfortunately I missed”he whispered after the meeting.
