How Manchester City have dealt with Antoine Semenyo racial abuse behind the scenes

How Manchester City have dealt with Antoine Semenyo racial abuse behind the scenes

Manchester City are offering Antoine Semenyo all the care and guidance he requires after the forward was racially abused on Instagram earlier this week, as per reports.

Semenyo took to Instagram to celebrate Manchester City‘s 3-0 win over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge last weekend, with the Ghana international continuing his fine run of form for the sky Blues since joining from Bournemouth in January.

The 26-year-old went on to share a snap of vile racial abuse aimed at him by a user in the comments, seven seasons on from when former Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling was racially abused on the pitch at Stamford Bridge in a 2-0 loss to Chelsea.

Antoine Semenyo racially abused on Instagram after Manchester City win over Chelsea

City play Arsenal in a monumental Premier League title deciding clash this weekend and Semenyo is expected to keep his place in the starting XI as Pep Guardiola’s men search for a fourth consecutive win to build on a fine run of triumphs over Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea in the last three weeks.

City supporting Semenyo through disgusting racial abuse

Shamoon Hafez of BBC Sport has reported that Manchester City are offering Semenyo ‘all the care and support’ through what has become a dangerously normalised ordeal in professional football fuelled by the access to athletes onlookers have via social media platforms.

This is not the first or last time Semenyo has suffered racial abuse in his professional career – only the latest of a long line of incidents that are a sad indictment of a wider societal problem that has etched its name in global sport.

Guardiola and his coaching staff will be providing great care to Semenyo, who has made a blistering start to life at the Etihad Stadium and has established himself as one of the first names on the teamsheet for the title-chasing Blues.

City’s captaincy group – comprising skipper Bernardo Silva, Ruben Dias, Erling Haaland and Ballon d’Or winner Rodri – will also have put an arm round Semenyo’s shoulder to remind the Ghanian of the unrelenting support he will have in what is still a new dressing room for the London-born attacker.

Guardiola is expected to be probed for his two cents on how Semenyo is coping with the incident when the Manchester City manager faces the press on Friday to preview Sunday’s titanic battle with Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium.