The incident occurred in the final minutes of the match when the score was 4-2 in favor of the home team. The ball boy, Portuguese Pedro Neto, refused to hand a new ball to the player after he had left the field. In response, the ball boy pretended to throw the ball away from Neto. The footballer then forcibly took the ball from him, pushed him, causing him to fall to the ground. This led to a scuffle on the touchline. The VAR team reviewed the incident but decided not to intervene. Former English footballer Glenn Hoddle defended Neto's actions, saying: 'Yes, he pushed the ball boy because the lad didn't want Chelsea star Pedro Neto to be sent off after he had pushed the Paris Saint-Germain ball boy and knocked him to the ground in the final minutes of the match in the capital, which ended in a 5-2 defeat.'
