The Manchester City defender, Aymeric Laporte, referred to the fight after the expulsion of Felipe Augusto at Atleti, after a kick on Foden, and the grab in which everything happened.
In the tunnel leading to the locker room, Croatian Sime Vrsaljko charged into a group of City players including Laporte. The Atleti man was totally dislocated. Even the police intervened in the fight.
The player of the English team explained this Wednesday, after qualifying for the semifinals of the Champions League (0-0), that the Atlético de Madrid players “have entered into absurd fights”, he pointed out that “a mess is generated no matter how little thing” and considered that it has “harmed them more” than his team.
“Very happy to go through to the next round. We knew it was going to be a difficult match. It has been. We’re happy. Now it’s time to think about what’s coming. I don’t know if we or they wasted time in the end, because they I’ve gotten into absurd fights, but I’m not going to go into more detail. We haven’t created everything ourselves. This is football. We already know what they’re like and when they’ve done it, the other teams haven’t complained”, he told ‘Movistar’.
He also talked about the tangana (fight) in the last minutes. “It is true that it is always ugly to come across this type of play, where you end up in tangana. It is superficial. A lot of fuss is generated for very little. It has hurt them more than us. In the end, if they get into the rag, it is what there is,” he added.
EFE
