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Atletico-City, brawl on the pitch and in the tunnel. The police intervene

To ignite the spirits in the 90 ‘was the player of the Spaniards with a bad foul on Foden. Then Savic pulled Grealish’s hair. And the turmoil continued on returning to the locker room, with Vrsaljko spitting on Walker and attempting to attack him.

Until the 90 ‘Atletico Madrid-Manchester City had been a hard-fought match, at times rough, but not terribly bad, taking into account the weight of the match and the statements that had made it more electric. Felipe, the defender of the Spaniards, started the fire, already at the beginning of the first half (on 13 ‘) he was pardoned by the referee after a bad foul on Foden, was injured in the head and forced to play the rest of the race with a bandage. Felipe was given a yellow card, however, eleven minutes later for an intervention from behind on De Bruyne in midfield.

felipe expelled

Felipe himself, in the 90th minute, faced Foden again at the level of the sideline, to stop a counterattack that could be dangerous. The City player initially tried to resist the attack, but then he was kicked and rolled to the ground. Savic launched himself on him, in an attempt to get him back up, perhaps convinced that there had been no foul and that this was a scene to waste time. The players of the two teams, but also the substitutes and members of the technical staff, rushed to that area of ​​the pitch and at that point the fight risked getting out of hand. Goalkeeper Oblak, in orange jersey, did everything to act as a barrier between the two factions. But Savic pulled Grealish’s hair, risking aggravating the situation even more. The referee let everyone vent and then, after a few minutes of stoppage in the game, he first warned Aké and Savic and then sent off Felipe. An inevitable red, but taken badly by the defender, convinced that he was seriously wronged. The Spanish fans underlined every moment of the fight with booms and whistles.

second round

After 13 tense minutes of recovery, the final whistle came. The City players embraced in the middle of the field, Simeone applauded the Spanish fans, but upon returning to the locker room there was a second round immortalized by the cameras which, as it became known, was nothing more than dragging inside the personal “match” between Savic and Grealish (also in the first leg, among other things, the player of the City was taken by the hair by Vrsaljco). Vrsaljco himself – former defender of Genoa, Sassuolo and Inter – appeared unleashed on the steps connecting the pitch to the changing rooms, almost transfigured by anger, so much so that more people had to intervene to stop him. In a video published by As on his website, he is seen first throwing an object at Walker, then attempting an assault and finally throwing a spit. It was not easy to keep the two players together to avoid physical contact. And to restore peace, police intervention with a dozen officers was necessary.

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