The clash of Chelsea and PSG in the final of the Club World Cup descended in a fight with Luis Enrique and Joao Pedro when the Brazilian accused the French side of not controlling their emotions
Chelsea star Joao Pedro, a scorer in the last success of the club World Cup about PSG, claims that the French side “lost” their heads while the temperature in New York flared up with Luis Enrique Central in the Scuffle.
The blues shocked the winners of the Champions League, because of a fantastic first half that Pedro saw among the goal scorers. But later the Brazilian was on the ground. Tempers cooking in the final phase and the French side saw Joao Neves sent away for pulling the hair of Chelsea's Marc Cucurella.
Both banks then ran into the field with Pedro and Enrique collided. The manager claimed that he was trying to separate players and prevent a heated situation to escalate. Pedro, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Achraf Hakimi were all involved in a confrontation before Enrique jumped in, but he seemed to raise an arm that saw Pedro hit the deck.
The Brazilian, who recently signed for Chelsea from Brighton, said: “I don't have to talk about it. Everyone wants to win the game and in the end I think they have lost their heads.
“But this is football. This has happened. Now we have to enjoy it because we have won the tournament, that's it. I don't want to talk too much about it because you know how it works. Football is this.”
PSG had been hot favorites who came in the game and with ease in the semi -final of Real Madrid were sent, but were surpassed by Chelsea when the Premier League lifted the trophy in the Metlife Stadium. Enrique defended his actions the end and maintained that he tried to keep peace.
He said: “I have no problem expressing my feelings at the end of the game in a high level of pressure. It is very stressful for all of us. It will be impossible to avoid that. Everyone was involved. It was not what was best and the end result of the pressure of the game.
“I saw (Chelsea manager and so on) Maresca. I saw that he had pushed others and we had to divorce all players and I don't know where that pressure came from. But this is a situation that we all have to avoid, that is obvious. My intention was to separate the football players, so that the situation did not get worse.”
After the Melee Chelsea had lifted the trophy, but in a bizarre series of events, Captain Reece James was next to US President Donald Trump, who was broken in the middle of the parties. Cole Palmer, scorer of two goals in the final, was named player of the tournament.