Marcus Rashford confronted a Manchester United fan who insulted him for being eliminated from the Champions League

Manchester United fans are upset by the team’s elimination from the UEFA Champions League round of 16 at the hands of Atlético de Madrid after losing 1-0 at Old Trafford. The fans do not forgive the defeat of the ‘Red Devils’ at home and accuse Marcus Rashford of being one of those responsible.

After the commitment, the attacker identified as one of the culprits of the club’s catastrophe faced a follower who insulted him outside the venue. According to the images published by the user @0161Darren, the striker approached the individual so that he would not continue with the verbal attacks.

However, according to some users, the 23-year-old footballer invited the fan to fight. However, after several hours of the viralization of the clip, the English player expressed his position and pointed out that the information is distorted.

“A video can paint a thousand words and in this case, it can lead to inaccurate information shared on social networks. For weeks I have been interrupted, threatened, questioned and last night my emotion took over me “Rashford said in a statement through his Twitter account.

Then he continued: “I’m a human being. Reading and hearing those things about yourself every day wears you out. No one is more critical of my performance than I am, but what you see in that video lacks context.”he added.

Along the same lines, the Manchester United footballer mentioned that, since he left the field, he received boos from fans who were looking for his reaction. In the same way, he stressed that he never raised his middle finger to show the fans that he insulted him.

“I want to clarify two things: the first is that I actually told the man who was hurling insults at me to “come here and say it to my face” and secondly, the fact that I showed the index finger was to indicate to the fan that it will come closer. I made no gesture with my middle finger. I have no right. This is not ego. I am very upset and disappointed. And at the time it was silly, but I was being human”, he explained.