Joao Pedro says PSG lost their heads after Final with tempers flaring on the pitch after the end of the match.
Paris St-Germain “lost their heads” during Sunday’s Club World Cup final, according to Chelsea forward Joao Pedro.
After Chelsea’s 3-0 triumph at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, tensions between the two teams erupted, and the 23-year-old Brazil forward ended up on the ground amid an altercation with PSG boss Luis Enrique.
According to Luis Enrique, his “intention was to separate the footballers so the situation didn’t become worse” and the “result of the pressure of the match” were the causes of such situations.
Joao Pedro, who scored Chelsea’s third goal, said: “I don’t need to talk about them. Everyone wants to win the game and, in the end, I think they lost their heads.
“But this is football. This has happened. 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.”
Luis Enrique, whose side were bidding to follow up their domestic treble and Champions League victory in 2024-25 with Club World Cup success, said: “I have no problem expressing my feelings 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 manager 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 was to separate the footballers so the situation didn’t become worse.”