Idrissa Gueye watched the match against Montpellier from the stands “for personal reasons”. The match was part of the 37th matchday of League 1, which took place as part of the World Day Against Homophobia.
The Parisians were fully present in Montpellier, even the suspended players (Neymar, Kimpembe) had arrived to be able to fly straight to Qatar. Of the team that Mauricio Pochettino had nominated for the match, only one player did not enter the pitch either for the warm-up or during the match: Idrissa Gueye.
This absence caused a lot of internal comments in the last hours, as he was already absent last year on the day against homophobia (due to a “stomach flu”), when the players of the French first division have to wear a jersey in the rainbow colours.[…]L’Equipe