Marseille forward Mason Greenwood was caught up in a fiery tussle with two Aston Villa stars during a pre-season friendly on Saturday. The fracas erupted after Greenwood put in a late tackle and chopped down Amadou Onana from behind.

Onana sprang straight back to his feet and began butting chests with Greenwood while Tyrone Mings, watching on from close quarters, picked up the ball and began making his way towards the altercation. Mings immediately moved in front of Onana, grabbed Greenwood by the collar of his shirt and swung him around as other players from both sides began piling in.

When the dust settled, the collar area of Greenwood's blue Marseille jersey was completely torn up, and a replacement shirt had to be brought on. It wasn't the first time one had left the other red-faced in a fiery friendly clash at Stade Velodrome.

In the first five minutes of the game, a long ball was played over the top which Mings should have intercepted, but Greenwood nipped in ahead of him, rounded the goalkeeper and tapped into an empty net to give Marseille the lead.

There were two more goals courtesy of another familiar face to English football fans, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang bagging a brace in a 3-1 win for the hosts.

And tensions remained high after the final whistle, with things getting heated between Villa boss Unai Emery and his Marseille counterpart, ex-Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi.

Greenwood earned his stripes in England, breaking into senior football as a hyped-up member of the Manchester United academy and scoring 35 goals in 129 first-team appearances for the Red Devils.

His Old Trafford career came to an abrupt halt in January 2022 following his arrest. The criminal charges brought against Greenwood, which were of attempted rape, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and coercive and controlling behaviour, were dropped the following February.

Greenwood, who is now 23, did not play at all during that time and was sent on loan to Getafe for the 2023/24 season. Marseille then bought him permanently last summer and he scored 21 goals in Ligue 1 in 2024/25, leaving him level with current Ballon d'Or favourite Ousmane Dembele in the scoring charts.

Greenwood's focus has also shifted on the international stage. Five years after his first and only England cap, the forward has been given clearance by the FA to represent Jamaica.