Gerard Pique calls out Cristiano Ronaldo’s offside goal in Tweet – but Crystal Palace defender Pape Souare hits back at Barcelona man
GERARD PIQUE hit out at Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid (and maybe Uefa) after the Portuguese star scored a clearly offside goal against Bayern Munich.
Gerard Pique hit out at Real Madrid and officials after Cristiano Ronaldo’s offside goalBut Crystal Palace defender Pape Souare surprisingly hit back at Pique – reminding him of Barcelona’s luck against Chelsea
The Barcelona defender, long an agitator of Real Madrid, simply posted an ellipsis, “…”, after Ronaldo’s goal.
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It doesn’t take much to see that Pique was being critical of Real getting favour from officials.
In just 30 minutes the Tweet had been retweeted more than 80,000 times.
Enter Pape Souare.
The Crystal Palace defender has only played three Premier League matches this season after a serious car crash back in September and has not appeared since.
"He's only gone and done it again!"
Cristiano Ronaldo scores his 99th Champions League goal.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored a perfect hat-trick against Bayern, but was clearly offside for the second goalReal Madrid are into the quarter-final after a 6-3 aggregate winGetty Images
But the Senegalese left-back was clearly tuning into what Pique was Tweeting.
The 26-year-old instantly shot back at Pique – posting images from the highly controversial Barcelona win over Chelsea in the 2009 Champions League semi-final at Stamford Bridge.
The Blues were dumped out of the European Cup by an Andres Iniesta winner in injury time – after they had seen FOUR penalty appeals waved away.
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Souare's Tweet racked up the retweets almost as quickly as Pique, with more than 10,000 in just 10 minutes.
But the defender appeared to get cold feet and then deleted the images.
PA:Press Association Crystal Palace defender Pape Souare[/caption]
The German side had forced the tie to extra-time, but Ronaldo eventually scored a perfect hat-trick - left foot, right foot, header - against Carlo Ancelotti's 10 men.
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