MADRID — A Rayo Vallecano fan appeared to intervene with a Sevilla participant taking a throw in throughout their Spanish league match on Monday.
Lucas Ocampos was on the touchline 33 minutes into the primary half when a fan reached out and poked his bottom. The Argentine winger turned to remonstrate with the younger fan after which known as the referee over. The match was halted briefly.
Some followers laughed on the incident as Rayo gamers appealed to the group to behave.
“You’ll be able to see what occurred within the (video) photographs,” Ocampos instructed broadcaster DAZN. “I hope La Liga takes it as critically because it takes racism and this stuff. I don’t suppose all of the Rayo persons are like that as a result of they’ve all the time handled us with respect, however there may be all the time one idiot.
“I hope it doesn’t occur in different areas, as a result of if this occurs in a ladies’s soccer match we all know what can occur. I saved my calm as a result of I’ve two daughters, I hope this doesn’t occur to them sooner or later. I hope that the motion that must be taken is taken, and I hope {that a} idiot like this doesn’t stain a set of followers who in any other case behaved very properly.”
The incident was the one blot on an in any other case completely satisfied evening for Sevilla, which received 2-1 and endded a six-game winless streak. Sevilla moved to fifteenth place in La Liga, three factors away from the relegation zone.
Rayo was two locations larger however the defeat was its fifth in a row and coach Francisco will likely be fearful about his workforce’s lack of finesse in entrance of purpose. Solely Cadiz and Mallorca have fewer objectives in La Liga.
Visiting Sevilla took the lead after 19 minutes because of a stroke of luck and a few medical ending. Issac Romero’s wayward cross cannoned off a Rayo defender and into the trail of Youssef En-Nesyri, who made no mistake from 18 meters.
The house facet leveled 10 minutes later when Isi Palazón turned in Alfonso Espino’s cross from the left.
However Romero and En-Nesyri mixed to strike once more a minute earlier than halftime to place Sevilla forward once more. En-Nesyri took Romero’s cross and completed well after a fast counterattack.
