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  "textContent": "Pedro Neto(Action Images via Reuters)\n\nPedro Neto has issued an apology after shoving a ball boy to the ground during Chelsea’s 5-2 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Wednesday night.\n\nLiam Rosenior’s side have a mountain to climb in the return leg at Stamford Bridge next week as the Champions League holders scored three late goals at the Parc des Princes.\n\nNeto, meanwhile, sparked a huge bust-up between the two sides after he pushed a ball boy to the ground because he refused to give the ball back to the Chelsea winger.\n\nThe Portugal international checked on the ball boy immediately after pushing him and issued an apology after the game.\n\n‘I want to come out to say that the situation that happened on the pitch, I want to apologise to the ball boy already, I spoke with him, the emotions of the game, we were losing, I wanted to pick up the ball, he was keeping the ball with him, I gave him a little push and I saw that I hurt him,’ Neto said.\n\n> \"It was the heat of the moment. I want to apologise.\"Pedro Neto reacts to Chelsea's defeat in Paris and addresses his incident with the ball boy at the end of the match…@tntsports & @discoveryplusUK | @Becky_Ives_ pic.twitter.com/ogp0Slfzj8\n>\n> — Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) March 11, 2026\n\n‘Straight away, because I’m not like this, in the heat of the moment I went to apologise, I gave him my shirt as well because that cannot happen and so I’m really, really sorry about that. And I just want to say one more time I’m really sorry to him.\n\n##  Your football fix\n\n**Metro** 's Head of Sport James Goldman delivers punchy analysis, transfer talk and his take on the week's biggest stories direct to your inbox every week.\n\nSign up here, it's an open goal.\n\n‘I feel like I have to apologise to him. In the heat of the moment, how football is, you have a lot of emotions, I wanted to get the ball fast, I gave him a push and I wanted to say sorry to him.\n\n‘Straight away at the end he came to speak with me and he even laughed because he was happy I gave him my shirt and I said sorry like 35 times. I’m really sorry about that and the situation. He knew what happened as well so he was happy as well that in the end I said sorry.\n\n‘I didn’t understand at first, he told me something and laughed as well and so I think he knew in the heat of the moment I’m not like that, things happen, the only thing that matters is that I was worried about him, so I’m really sorry about the situation.’\n\n**For more stories like this,check our sport page**.\n\n**Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on**Facebook, **Twitter and Instagram**.\n\nComment now Comments  Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google Add as preferred source ",
  "title": "Pedro Neto speaks out after shoving ball boy in Chelsea’s defeat to PSG"
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