TIL Desk Sports/ Former Uruguay international striker Diego Forlan has leapt to the defence of compatriot Edinson Cavani after the French football club Paris Saint-Germain striker’s on-pitch row with teammate Neymar.
Cavani and Neymar grabbed headlines for all the wrong reasons when they twice argued over set piece duties during Paris Saint-Germain’s 2-0 victory over Lyon in France’s Ligue 1 on Sunday.
“Edinson deserves respect,” Forlan told. “He has been scoring for years and is very good at converting penalties. Neymar wouldn’t have acted that way with (former Barcelona teammate) Lionel Messi. He behaved like a child.”
Cavani and Neymar first argued over who would take a free kick, with the Brazilian eventually getting his way after his countryman Dani Alves took the ball out of the Uruguayan’s hands.
