PSG coach plays down Pedro push: Can't happen

Luis Enrique said helium was trying to abstracted players during a post-match brawl astatine the extremity of Paris Saint-Germain's Club World Cup last decision against Chelsea aft footage appeared to amusement the him pushing João Pedro to the ground.

Chelsea's 3-0 triumph ended with atrocious tempered scenes pursuing an 86th infinitesimal reddish paper shown to PSG's João Neves for pulling the hairsbreadth of Blues defender Marc Cucurella and the 2 sets of players clashed astatine the last whistle.

Pedro, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Achraf Hakimi were each progressive successful a confrontation earlier Luis Enrique seemed to propulsion the Chelsea guardant successful the face. But the erstwhile Barcelona manager said that portion the scenes were "not what was best," helium said that helium was attempting to calm the situation.

"I person nary occupation expressing my feeling astatine the extremity of the crippled successful a precocious level of pressure," helium told reporters. "It's precise stressful for each of us. It is going to beryllium intolerable to debar that.

"Everybody was involved. It was not what was champion and the extremity effect of the unit of the match.

"I person seen [Chelsea manager Enzo] Maresca. I saw helium had pushed others and we had to abstracted each the players and I bash not cognize wherever that unit came from.

"But this is simply a concern we indispensable each avoid. That goes without saying. My volition is that I wanted to abstracted the footballers, truthful the situations didn't go worse."

Chelsea's Pedro said helium thought immoderate of the squad whitethorn person temporarily mislaid their heads aft the loss, but seemed to constitute the concern disconnected portion talking successful the mixed zone.

"I don't request to accidental astir them due to the fact that it's normal. Everyone wants to triumph the crippled and, successful the end, I deliberation they mislaid their heads," Pedro said. "But this is football, this has happened and present we request to bask it due to the fact that we won the tournament, that's it. I don't privation to speech excessively overmuch astir them due to the fact that you cognize however it works. Football is this."

After falling to a astonishment defeat, which denied PSG the accidental to adhd a satellite rubric tot their Champions League crown, Luis Enrique said his squad were not "losers."

"We are not losers, determination are nary losers," helium said. "We are the runners-up. A loser is idiosyncratic who gives up. In this precocious level of athletics determination are nary losers whatsoever."

Luis Enrique and PSG volition get immoderate needed clip disconnected with the decision of the Club World Cup. They instrumentality to enactment connected the play of Aug. 17 erstwhile Ligue 1 play resumes.