John Terry defended his Chelsea team-mates against claims they behaved like ‘babies’ and insisted that they would continue to pressurise referees.
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John Terry defended his Chelsea team-mates against claims they behaved like ‘babies’ and insisted that they would continue to pressurise referees.
Paris Saint-Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic made the accusation after nine Chelsea players surrounded the referee to get him sent off for a tackle on Oscar in the Champions League last-16 game on Wednesday.
Jamie Carragher said on Sky the behaviour of Chelsea’s players was ‘disgraceful’ and Graeme Souness called it ‘pathetic’.
‘Coming from them?’ said the Chelsea captain in direct response to the comments from Carragher and Souness, before adding: ‘I don’t want to get involved in a row but you have to stick up for your team-mates.
‘The fans want to see that and that’s the same with every side. Every side is as bad as each other. It’s part of the game.’
Terry claimed Chelsea had learned such dark arts as exaggerating contact and influencing officials over a decade in the Champions League and accused all top teams of using the same tactics, including PSG, as they knocked Chelsea out of the Champions League on away goals.
‘Once they’re charging the ref, the only thing we can do is respond,’ Terry said.
‘You can’t as a group of players let them surround the ref, trying to get our players booked. If I have to run 20 or 30 yards, it doesn’t look great, but when you’re standing back and see five or six of their players surrounding the ref, I think I’ll support my team-mates. And once I go, four or five go with me.
‘It doesn’t look good at all but that’s part of the game. We’ll match it if people want to mix it, that’s part of our game as well.’
It was a stormy game packed with flashpoints, including a running battle between Diego Costa and David Luiz, who left Stamford Bridge for Paris last year.
Luiz, who was accused by Jose Mourinho of felling Costa with an elbow, said: ‘No, I didn’t do that. He can say what he wants. He can talk about when Costa gave me the elbow in the diaphragm. It is normal. It is always a battle to play against Diego Costa. He is a good friend, a fantastic guy and he is having an amazing season.’
Chelsea’s defeat means there will be no English teams in the last eight of the Champions League if Manchester City and Arsenal fail to overturn first-leg deficits next week at Barcelona and Monaco respectively.
And Terry added: ‘We’re normally in the hat for the next round. From the club’s point of view and the players’ and the fans’, we’re obviously really disappointed.’ – Daily Mail
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