- Lucas Ocampos had his bottom poked by a Rayo Vallecano fan
- The Sevilla winger lashed out on the lack of respect for gamers
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Sevilla have condemned ‘the obscene gesture’ of a Rayo Vallecano fan, who appeared to intervene with Lucas Ocampos by poking his bottom throughout their LaLiga match on Monday evening.
With 33 minutes gone within the first half, Ocampos was about to take a throw in, when a Rayo supporter reached out and appeared to stay his left index finger into his bum.
The Argentine winger turned to remonstrate with the fan after which referred to as referee Hernández Maeso over, with the match halted for a few minutes because of this.
As Ocampos remonstrated with Maeso, Rayo gamers Isi Palazón and Oscar Valentin each went over to talk to the younger fan who poked the Sevilla winger.
‘You can see what occurred within the footage,’ Ocampos advised broadcaster DAZN.
A Rayo Vallecano fan appeared to poke Lucas Ocampos bottom on Monday evening
Ocampos turned to face the fan and exchanged phrases with him, earlier than the referee intervened
The Sevilla winger remonstrated with the referee after the incident
‘I hope La Liga takes it as significantly because it takes racism and these items. I don´t assume all of the Rayo individuals 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 would not occur in different areas, as a result of if this occurs in a girls’s soccer match we all know what can occur.
‘I saved my calm as a result of I’ve two daughters, I hope this does not occur to them sooner or later.
‘I hope that the motion that needs to 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 effectively.’
A press release from Sevilla learn: ‘Sevilla FC deeply regrets the incident that occurred this Monday within the match towards Rayo Vallecano, through which our participant Lucas Ocampos suffered an obscene and completely inappropriate gesture by a neighborhood fan.
‘Sevilla FC hopes that the suitable measures can be taken which typifies the regulation in order that such habits is just not repeated on a soccer discipline, and this has been transferred to LaLiga.
‘These gestures and behaviors shouldn’t be allowed in our competitors if we aspire to be the perfect league on the planet.’
The incident was the one blot on an in any other case pleased evening for Sevilla, who gained 2-1 to finish a six-game winless run and transfer as much as fifteenth on the desk, three factors away from the relegation zone.
The Sevilla winger referred to as for LaLiga to take motion towards the Rayo fan
The guests took the lead after 19 minutes because of a stroke of luck and a few medical ending. Issac Romero´s wayward move cannoned off a Rayo defender and into the trail of Youssef En-Nesyri, who made no mistake from 18 yards out.
The residence facet leveled 10 minutes later when Isi Palazón turned in Alfonso Espino´s cross from the left.
But 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 move and completed neatly after a fast counterattack.
Rayo, in the meantime, are thirteenth however have now misplaced 5 video games in a row and stay frustratingly toothless in entrance of aim, with solely Cadiz and Mallorca scoring fewer objectives this season.