{"id":16394,"date":"2025-07-13T19:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/luis-enrique-denies-aggression-towards-pedro-after-psgs-defeat-in-the-final\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T19:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:55:14","slug":"luis-enrique-denies-aggression-towards-pedro-after-psgs-defeat-in-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/luis-enrique-denies-aggression-towards-pedro-after-psgs-defeat-in-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Enrique denies aggression towards Pedro after PSG&#8217;s defeat in the final"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Luis Enrique Explains Incidents After PSG&#8217;s Defeat<\/h2>\n\nParis Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique gave statements after the final match of the Club World Cup, where his team was defeated by Chelsea. The match ended with tensions and an altercation on the field.\n\nThe images suggest that Luis Enrique pushed Jo\u00e3o Pedro. The Spanish coach explained that his intention was to separate the players during the fight that broke out after the final whistle.\n\nThe PSG&#8217;s 3-0 defeat was marred by the expulsion of Jo\u00e3o Neves from PSG in the 86th minute, after pulling the hair of Marc Cucurella, Chelsea player. This incident sparked a confrontation between both teams.\n\nPedro, Gianluigi Donnarumma, and Achraf Hakimi were also involved in the confrontation. Luis Enrique stated that, although the scenes were not ideal, his goal was to calm the situation.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI have no problem expressing my feelings at the end of the match under a lot of pressure. It&#8217;s very stressful for all of us. It will be impossible to avoid it.<\/p><cite>Luis Enrique<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe coach added that he saw Enzo Maresca, Chelsea&#8217;s coach, pushing others and that he tried to separate the players to prevent the situation from worsening.\n\nAfter the defeat, which prevented PSG from adding a world title to their Champions League crown, Luis Enrique insisted that his team are not &#8220;losers&#8221;.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe are not losers, there are no losers. We are runners-up. A loser is someone who gives up. At this high sporting level there are no losers at all.\u201d<\/p><cite>Luis Enrique<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nPSG, with Luis Enrique at the helm, will have a break after the Club World Cup. The team will return to action on the weekend of August 17th, with the restart of Ligue 1.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Enrique Explains Incidents After PSG&#8217;s Defeat Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique gave statements after the final match of the Club World Cup, where his team was defeated by Chelsea. The match ended with tensions and an altercation on the field. The images suggest that Luis Enrique pushed Jo\u00e3o Pedro. The Spanish coach explained that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5785,220,787,705],"class_list":{"0":"post-16394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-brawl","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-club-world-cup","11":"tag-luis-enrique"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}