Saturday 26 October 2013 00:27, UK
Yaya Toure has hit back at claims from CSKA Moscow that he misheard jeers from their fans as monkey chants.
Doumbia left himself open to question after a confusing account of his post-match quotes. The 25-year-old was reported as saying his Ivory Coast compatriot "obviously got excited" in relation to him hearing monkey chants. Doumbia took to his Facebook page to try to clear up the situation, initially writing: "I want to clarify my position after my Ivory Coast team-mate and friend Yaya Toure accused CSKA fans of racism. "I want to insist that I did not talk to any journalist about these facts so none of the quotes you read in the press came from me." A few hours later Doumbia added another entry in which he stated: "I want to insist that I did not talk to any journalist about these facts, except just one from Sport-Express, whom I know well, so none of the quotes you read in other publications outside Russia came from me." The quotes in Sport-Express were the ones reproduced by CSKA's own website and while there may have been slight mistranslations further afield there appears to be no doubt that Doumbia is standing by the words printed by the Russian newspaper.