Psg 'lost Their Heads' After Club World Cup Final - Joao Pedro

Chelsea striker Joao Pedro said Paris St-Germain "lost their heads" successful nan aftermath of Sunday's Club World Cup final.

The Brazil forward, 23, ended up connected nan level during an incident involving PSG head Luis Enrique, arsenic tempers flared betwixt nan 2 sides pursuing Chelsea's 3-0 triumph astatine MetLife Stadium successful New Jersey.

Luis Enrique said afterwards those scenes were nan "result of nan unit of nan match" and that his "intention was to abstracted nan footballers truthful nan business didn't go worse".

Joao Pedro, who scored Chelsea's 3rd goal, said: "I don't request to talk astir them. Everyone wants to triumph nan crippled and, successful nan end, I deliberation they mislaid their heads.

"But this is football. This has happened. Now we request to bask it because we won nan tournament, that's it.

"I don't want to talk excessively overmuch astir them because you cognize really it works. Football is this."

The confrontations astatine full-time came aft PSG's Joao Neves was sent disconnected successful nan closing minutes for pulling nan hairsbreadth of Chelsea full-back Marc Cucurella.

Luis Enrique, whose broadside were bidding to travel up their home treble and Champions League triumph successful 2024-25 pinch Club World Cup success, said: "I person nary problem expressing my feelings astatine nan extremity of nan crippled successful a precocious level of pressure. It's very stressful for each of us. It is going to beryllium intolerable to debar that.

"Everybody was involved. It was not what was champion and nan extremity consequence of nan unit of nan match.

"I person seen [Chelsea head Enzo] Maresca. I saw he had pushed others and we had to abstracted each nan players and I do not cognize wherever that unit came from.

"But this is simply a business we must each avoid, that goes without saying. My volition was to abstracted nan footballers truthful nan business didn't go worse."

Joao Pedro's dinked 43rd-minute decorativeness added to 2 earlier strikes from Cole Palmer arsenic Chelsea won nan first version of nan expanded Club World Cup.