Thursday 12 March 2015

Reaction to 'Chelsea's defeat

David Luiz

 Lots of reactions rushing in from different corners on the heels of Chelsea's 'Ugly' defeat to PSG in the UEFA ChampionsLeague.

 

BBC Radio 5 live commentator Alan Green: "Never in a month of Sundays was this an acceptable game of football. I'm not defending any of these cretins out there who are behaving disgracefully."
BBC Radio 5 live presenter Mark Chapman: "They are all as bad as each other. I don't think these two sides are the only ones that do it. We see it week in week out."
BBC Radio 5 live summariser Mark Lawrenson: "Chelsea's reaction as a team almost seemed choreographed. It was as if someone pushed a button and said, 'Go and surround the referee'. I think Diego Costa ran 50 yards - what's it got to do with him?"
England captain Wayne Rooney: That is one of the best performances I've ever seen with 10 men from PSG.
Former Argentina midfielder Ossie Ardiles: Chelsea losing at home vs 10 men, very poor and ugly performance... Repercussions for the Premier League?
Netherlands defender John Heitinga: PSG vs Chelsea game was insane! Hats off to PSG for playing 90+ mins with 10 men
Former Liverpool forward Luis Garcia: Fantastic game, PSG deserved to go through. After playing with 10 men most of the game always looked face to face to Chelsea.
Ex-Republic of Ireland striker John Aldridge: Chelsea simply got what they deserved. The way they played portrayed their manager. Negativity at home, rarely works.

Former Liverpool and Republic of Ireland striker John Aldridge tweeted:"Chelsea simply got what they deserved. The way they played portrayed their manager. Negativity at home, rarely works."
Former Liverpool manager Graeme Souness on Sky Sports:"The reaction of the Chelsea players on the challenge on Oscar is something we can do without. I find it totally unacceptable. That's how pathetic it is."
Ex-Argentina midfielder and Tottenham manager Osvaldo Ardiles on Twitter:"Very very poor performance for Chelsea, so defensive. Pity to see such a wonderful array of players playing so negative. Best team won."


Former Chelsea defender Michael Duberry on Twitter:"Disappointing is the best way I can describe tonight."
Ex-England cricket captain Michael Vaughan on Twitter:"Let's be honest. With all the talent on show its a shame both teams have set out to try and cynically out do each other."

Red card to be overturned?

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho and his PSG counterpart Laurent Blanc hope the striker's red card will be overturned, allowing him to play in the quarter-finals.

Mourinho felt officials had a poor view of Ibrahimovic's sending-off and PSG defender David Luiz should have been punished for elbowing Chelsea striker Diego Costa off the ball in the first half.

"Maybe they can do what is fair by the disciplinary point of view and suspend David and take the red card from Ibra and let Ibra play the quarter-finals," he said.

Blanc suggested an appeal would be likely: "I hope Ibra can be with us in the quarter-finals.

"He'll certainly want to play a good match in the quarter-finals because he has a feeling that he did something that punished the team and could have punished them terminally.

"I think he's going to play very well in the quarter-finals."

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