It’s a bad day to be Theo Hernandez.
The flying AC Milan fullback has been destroyed for his role in the team’s Champions League exit at the hands of Feyenoord.
Hernandez received a second yellow card for a dive in the penalty box, leaving Milan with ten men who eventually conceded a match-winner.
The Frenchman has since been ridiculed across the globe, with Dutch football icon Marco van Basten saying: “He is a first-class baker. In football jargon, it is used to define a person who is not exactly brilliant…”
Zvonimir Boban commented: “Theo has been doing it (diving) for years, I’m surprised that nobody has told him or corrected him. He’s been doing it for five years.
“The second yellow card is absurd. It’s indecent, it’s unsportsmanlike. It’s just not done.
“Since the beginning of the season, we’ve seen a Theo who is nothing like the Theo we know. He’s apathetic. At first he didn’t know how to defend, then he improved a lot, this year instead he doesn’t even think about it.”
However, his coach, Sergio Conceicao, tried to ease the pressure, arguing: “I’ve made a lot of mistakes in the past and I continue to make them, as do my players. But the responsibility for not progressing is mine, not Theo Hernández’s.
“Why is he so inconsistent? I’ve known him for a while and I know he can give more, but the coach can give more too.”
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