A scuffle broke out after the end of the club World Cup final on Sunday, with Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique and goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma that seemed to push Chelsea ahead João Pedro.
Chelsea stroked PSG 3-0 up region to win the title and scored three goals in the first half in a match that became Testy with a red card to PSG’s João Neves for downing Marc Cucurella to his hair, together with six yellow cards.
Enrique was on the field near the middle circle and seemed to push Pedro in the throat. Donnarumma pushed the 23-year-old forward, who fell.
Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca moved Donnarumma, a colleague -Italian.
«This was completely avoidable at the end,» Enrique said via a translator. «My goal and my goal, as always, is to separate the football players to prevent bigger problems. There is a lot of tension, a lot of pressure, and there was a lot of push that was going on by many people.» PSG Defender Achraf Hakimi had gestures on Pedro and Chelsea -midfielder Andrey Santos.
«I saw players around him,» Pedro said about Santos. «As a good Brazilian I started to protect a friend. Many people were there, and it ended with me who was pushed. These things happen. They don’t know how to lose. Now it’s time to celebrate.» Maresca said he was not aware of how the Fracas started.
«I saw that something was wrong, but I don’t know what happened,» he said.