Lee Johnson hit out at FC Europa bad boy Nicholas Pazo and insists he was lucky he never seriously injured Elie Youan with a “naughty” tackle in a fiery encounter in Marbella.
Hibs ran out comfortable 2-0 winners thanks to goals from Adam Le Fondre - his first for the club - and Josh Campbell. But in a game which simmered with bad feeling from start to finish it was Pazo’s challenge on Youan, who he caught just below the knee, which was the talking point afterwards. It sparked a mini melee as players from both sides got involved.
And Johnson said: “I said to the boys before the game they’d get that because it’s a foreign country, a foreign ref. We had a bit of intel from Portsmouth, who played them last week, about what they were like. They’re aggressive but also very quick to roll over and scream, which doesn’t add up to us Brits.
