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Pep apologises for brawl
- Updated: December 3, 2016
Pep Guardiola apologised for the injury-time brawl that marred a pulsating encounter between Manchester City and Chelsea but refused to criticise Sergio Aguero.
The Argentinian sparked the melee with a knee-high tackle on David Luiz that saw him handed a straight red card by referee Anthony Taylor.
Fernandinho was then also sent off for repeatedly pushing Cesc Fabregas, with the Spaniard falling over an advertising hoarding.
It proved a costly afternoon for City, who led at half-time but ended up losing 3-1, and they now face losing Aguero for four games and Fernandinho for three.
Guardiola said: “It is a pity it finished like this. It was the way the referee decided. I don’t like that, I apologise for what happened.”
Aguero has already served a three-match ban this season, imposed retrospectively for an elbow on West Ham’s Winston Reid in a game in August.
Taylor appeared to have little option but to send off Aguero, but Guardiola said: “He [Luiz] went down and he [Aguero] touched him. It wasn’t …
