English teammates Jude Bellingham and Declan Rice were involved in a heated confrontation during the Champions League victory of Arsenal on Wednesday evening on Real Madrid.
Rice was the star of the show in the first stage of last week and scored two beautiful free kicks to give Arsenal a 3-0 win and brought them in full control over the quarterfinal draw on the way to the return match in the Bernabeu.
He won his head-to-head fight against Bellingham at the Emirates and got the better from the Real Madrid star in Spain again. But Bellingham refused to deal with without a fight, and the couple were seeing each other together in the first half as they are suppressing the ball near the half line.
However, it was actually an incident in the opening of three minutes that Bellingham seemed to be disturbed, while rice on the edge of the box on the floor, who regained the property while the referee waved.
Bellingham seemed to be astonished in losing his first physical battle with rice, and that set the tone for the rest of the game while he cut a frustrated figure for a long time.
The subsequent spit between the couple seemed to go back to that early challenge, and neither of them deteriorated because their teammates had to jump quickly to prevent the situation from escalating.
It was also not the only moment of tension between players, because the wounded real star Dani Carvajal grabbed Bukayo Saka during the break and had a number of choice words for the winger after his first half of punishment.
However, Rice and Saka were able to put the rows behind them, because they both delivered striking displays to spend Arsenal to the semi -final with something to save.
For the second week on the trot, Rice received the player from the Match Award after an all-action performance when he broke out real attacks and Arsenal consistently got on the field.
In the meantime, Saka recovered from his early penalty Howler to put Arsenal in the front at night with a smart print finish on Thibaut Courtois.
Real got a goal back from Vinicius JR after the fault of William Saliba, but Gabriel Martinelli wrapped a memorable Bernabeu win in extra time to achieve a 5-1 total victory for the men of Mikel Arteta.
Rice and Co. Now have a semi -final against PSG to look forward to, but they will be without Thomas Pareny for the first leg after he had picked up a late booking in the Bernabeu.
Rice was furious with his teammate because he was involved after Antonio Rudiger Mikel Merino had polluted, and was seen that Pedey grabbed and ravaged for him because he did not keep cool.
But he could be proud of his own performance after again overshadowing Bellingham, and their confrontation was a perfect example of how Arsenal refused to be bullied by the Spanish giants in one of the most hostile atmosphere in European football.