A PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN fan was left ‘hospitalised’ after an angry confrontation with PSG flops in the early hours of the morning, according to local reports in France.
Thiago Motta allegedly hit a fan with his car – leaving him with a ‘wound on his back’ – as fans waited for PSG players to return following their stunning Champions League defeat in Barcelona.
BFMTV have footage of around 30 angry fans confronting players at Le Bourget airport in Paris in the early hours of Thursday morning.
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Fans were furious after Unai Emery’s team blew a 4-0 first leg lead and lost 6-1 at the Nou Camp.
Barcelona scored three goals in the final seven minutes to send PSG packing.
The report claims that police were ‘understaffed’ at the private airport and could not cover two exits simultaneously.
Centre-back Marquinhos had his car ‘degraded’ at one exit, they claim.
At another exit, a dozen fans surrounded Motta and his wife in their car, according to an eyewitness.
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Italian midfielder Motta allegedly ‘struck one of them’ – although it is not clear if that was on purpose or if the supporter was hanging onto his car.
The report states that the man was ‘wounded in the back’ and taken by firemen to Saint-Denis hospital for examination.
Motta was not in the matchday squad for the game, despite travelling with the rest of the players.
His team-mates were hammered in the French press for their performance.
L'Equipe's notorious player ratings were particularly brutal on the French champions, scoring FIVE players just 2/10.
The newspaper was clearly as shellshocked by the result as the club's fans.
On their front page they went with the headline 'Unspeakable' - a rehash of an iconic page from 1993.
That headline came after France had seen their hopes for qualifying for the 1994 World Cup in the USA dashed by lowly Bulgaria.
The first leg had had the headline 'Prodigious'.
Damningly, the performance was described as an "historic shipwreck" in which the club's "worst nightmares" had come true.
Le Monde’s headline translated to ‘Failure of Too Much’, describing the game as one of the “worst fiascos” in French football history.
Local Paris paper Le Parisien spared no sympathy for any of the players either, going with the headline ‘All Guilty’.
PSG chairman and CEO Nasser Al-Khelaifi made no excuses for the shock defeat.
"Even if we should have had two penalties, we are not looking for excuses.
"We did not play in the first half. After winning the first leg 4-0, it is very difficult to accept losing the second 6-1 but we do not have a choice.
"After our first leg win, the aim of reaching the quarterfinals was legitimate, but we know in football that that does not mean anything. We tried to do our best. We did not manage to qualify but we will continue.
"To concede three times in seven minutes when we had been trailing 3-1 after 88 minutes is very hard. I have not spoken with the players yet, it is not the right time.
"Everyone is annoyed, it is normal. We are going to calm ourselves down."
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