Lozano claimed that players from the Catalan neighbours attempted to provoke him.<\/p>\n
Espanyol defender Paul Lozano has deactivated his Instagram account after facing a backlash from Barcelona supporters following Saturday\u2019s Catalan Derby.<\/p>\n
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The row flared up after Espanyol\u2019s 4-1 loss at the Camp Nou in Saturday\u2019s 31st-round La Liga clash, when Lozano exchanged words with several Bar\u00e7a players.<\/p>\n
While the match itself was eventful, it was the tunnel altercation after the final whistle that drew the most criticism, with the Espanyol camp voicing displeasure at their local rivals\u2019 conduct.<\/p>\n
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Lozano found himself caught in a verbal altercation with several Bar\u00e7a players, including Portuguese full-back Jo\u00e3o Cancelo.<\/p>\n
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Lozano openly expressed his disappointment over the exchange. When asked about the specific words directed at him by the Barcelona players, the midfielder declined to give details, telling DAZN: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter; the only thing that counts is football\u2026 Everyone saw the level of respect they showed their fellow professionals. Nothing more to add.\u201d<\/p>\n
He later clarified the nature of the altercation: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t about Cancelo. These things happen on the pitch. They tried to provoke me a bit because they won, that\u2019s all\u2026 When you lose, you have to put up with it\u2026 It\u2019s always the same, it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
The row then spilled from the tunnel onto social media, prompting the midfielder to temporarily leave Instagram to escape further abuse from local rivals\u2019 fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lozano claimed that players from the Catalan neighbours attempted to provoke him. Espanyol defender Paul Lozano has deactivated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[179,1990,92,330,223,937,1495,1177,1989,719,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-2713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-barca-players","10":"tag-barcelona","11":"tag-camp-nou","12":"tag-fc-barcelona","13":"tag-joao-cancelo","14":"tag-lewandowski","15":"tag-mbappe","16":"tag-paul-lozano","17":"tag-rcd-espanyol","18":"tag-real-madrid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}