Manchester United player Paul Pogba defends Zlatan Ibrahimovic over Romelu Lukaku incident

Paul Pogba defended former Manchester United teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovic following his spat with Romelu Lukaku within the Milan derby.

The pair have been concerned in a lot of clashes in the course of the sport and Ibrahimovic was finally despatched off 13 minutes into the second half for a problem on Aleksandar Kolarov.

Pitch aspect microphones picked up Ibrahimovic telling Lukaku to ‘go do your voodoo’ in an obvious reference to claims made by Everton proprietor Farhad Moshiri in 2018 that the Belgium worldwide opted to depart the membership after receiving a ‘voodoo message’. Such claims led to Lukaku looking for authorized recommendation.

Ibrahimovic denied utilizing racist language in the course of the sport writing on Twitter: “In Zlatan’s world there is no such thing as a place for racism. We’re all the identical race – we’re all equal! We’re all gamers, some higher than others.”

Neither membership has issued an announcement on the incident with the matter now underneath overview by the Italian Soccer Federation.

Pogba – who performed with each Lukaku and Ibrahimovic at United – defended the Swede on Twitter.

He wrote: “Zlatan… racist? He loves me an excessive amount of so he is the final particular person I would consider as racist! Come on, do not joke with that one!” with a crying laughing emoji.

Ibrahimovic spoke with Italian outlet Gazetta dello Sport in 2019 about his relationship with Lukaku at United following the Belgian’s transfer to Inter Milan.

The Swede revealed he provided Lukaku £50 for each profitable first contact.

He stated: “Romelu makes up his thoughts for his teammates, his finest weapon is energy. Technically he isn’t very sturdy, if he had listened to me. I provided him 50 kilos for every cease he made appropriately.

“He provoked me, questioning what I might have given him if he had received all of it proper, and I replied: ‘Nothing, simply make you a footballer higher!’ He by no means accepted, perhaps he was afraid of shedding.”

Inter defeated Milan 2-1 with objectives from Lukaku and Christian Eriksen.