Chelsea stunned UEFA Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) with a 3-0 win in the final of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025. But the result was overshadowed by an ugly brawl between players after the final whistle.
PSG coach Luis Enrique was seen trying to separate players during the chaos. However, a video clip went viral on social media, showing Enrique pushing Chelsea forward Joao Pedro to the ground.
Tensions had already flared in the 86th minute, when PSG’s Joao Neves received a red card for pulling the hair of Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella. Things boiled over after the full-time whistle, with players from both sides clashing.
Speaking after the match, Luis Enrique addressed the incident, saying: “I have no problem expressing my feeling at the end of the game in a high level of pressure. It’s very stressful for all of us. It is going to be impossible to avoid that. Everybody was involved. It was not what was best and the end result of the pressure of the match.
“I have seen [Chelsea coach Enzo] Maresca. I saw he had pushed others and we had to separate all the players and I do not know where that pressure came from. But this is a situation we must all avoid. That goes without saying. My intention is that I wanted to separate the footballers, so the situations didn’t become worse,” he further added.
“I don’t want to talk too much about them because you know how it works.” – Pedro
Meanwhile, Chelsea’s Joao Pedro downplayed the fight while speaking in the mixed zone: “I don’t need to say about them because it’s normal. Everyone wants to win the game and, in the end, I think they lost their heads,” Pedro said. “But this is football, this has happened and now we need to enjoy it because we won the tournament, that’s it. I don’t want to talk too much about them because you know how it works. Football is this,” he said.
Despite the loss, Enrique praised his players and rejected the idea that they were losers: “We are not losers, there are no losers. We are the runners-up. A loser is somebody who gives up. In this high level of sport, there are no losers whatsoever.”
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