Coach Luis Enrique from Paris Saint-Germain emphasized after the handmade after the final of the club World Cup against Chelsea (0: 3) that he only wanted to “separate the players”.
On television pictures you could see how the Spaniard came to a blow to the neck of Chelsea’s goal scorer João Pedro and hit him on the neck and chin.
Pedro had previously knocked the hand away from Enrique when he wanted to calm a confrontation between the Brazilian and PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.
“After the game there was a situation that would have been totally avoidable for everyone involved,” said Enrique, but emphasized several times: “My intention was to prevent things from getting worse.”
At the victory of FC Chelsea against the Champions League winner by the goals of Cole Palmer (22nd/30th) and Pedro (43.) there was nothing to shake from the perspective of Enrique.
“When you look at the entire game, they deservedly won. They played very well,” he said. In the partially hard -led game, João Neves saw the red card (86th) because he had pulled Chelseas Marc Cucurella on his hair.