By WILL PICKWORTH, SPORTS REPORTER
Published: 18:03 EDT, 11 March 2026 | Updated: 18:11 EDT, 11 March 2026
Pedro Neto bizarrely clashed with a ball boy during the latter stages of Chelsea's Champions League defeat by PSG.
With the Blues 4-2 down in injury-time, the ball bounced out of play and Neto attempted to retrieve a fresh ball off a ball boy at the side of the Parc des Princes pitch.
However, the ball boy hesitated and refused to give the ball immediately to Neto, before he seemed to motion to throw the ball away.
Neto took issue with this in his desperation to get the ball back, and instead pushed over the ball boy, who was left writhing around on the floor in pain.
The winger's actions created a scuffle on the touchline and were reviewed by VAR, but he was left unpunished.
Speaking on TNT Sports' coverage of the game, Glenn Hoddle leapt to the defence of Neto as he said: 'Yeah, he's pushed him but he's pushed him because the ball boy isn't going to give him the ball and goes to throw the ball away.
Pedro Neto clashed with a ball boy in the latter stages of Chelsea's defeat by PSG
'To defend the player it's the last minute of the game. He wants to get on with the game and the lad is trying to throw the ball away from him. He just gives him a nudge.'
Neto did apologise after the incident to the ball boy, and things were about to get worse for him when Khvicha Kvaratskhelia made it 5-2 later in stoppage time.
Sam Matterface on commentary said: 'It's not quite Charlie Morgan and Eden Hazard but it is a shove on a ball boy.'
Matterface was referencing the infamous incident in January 2013 when Hazard was sent off for kicking Morgan, who was a ballboy during Chelsea's defeat by Swansea in a League Cup semi-final, and tried to waste time.
After Neto was left unpunished, Hoddle added: 'Rightly so, if the ball boy didn't do anything then that's another story.'
At full-time Neto was seen giving the ball boy his shirt and the pair appeared to make up for each other following the strange incident.
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