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LA Galaxy forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic said he feels like he is "hunted" despite escaping punishment for a clash with LAFC's Mohamed El-Munir, which left the player needing surgery. Ibrahimovic was given a formal warning but escaped sanction from Major League Soccer after elbowing El-Munir in the Los Angeles derby on Friday, which the Galaxy won 3-2. - Carlisle: How can MLS compete with Liga MX at Leagues Cup
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- Stream all Leagues Cup matches on ESPN+ El-Munir needed surgery after the incident which led to a fracture, but Ibrahimovic was not carded. "I feel like I am hunted," Ibrahimovic said. "But when you are the best, you're hunted." He added: "That I feel a little bit hunted in that way, that is not OK, because I play my game and I need to feel free in my game and not feel after the game [that] people will look at me and look [at the] detail at everything I do. "Because that is not part of the game. We have a referee, the referee does his thing. If it goes beyond that, I understand, we have this Disciplinary Committee, but [what is] worse than [being] reviewed every game? "I'm professional like everybody else. I should get treated like everybody else. If they cannot stop you on the field, that's it, you cannot do nothing about it. "And if you try to do something outside [the field], that for me is not part of the game. That is not professional."
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