Manchester City Striker Sergio Kun Aguero didn’t just challenge, or even tackle Chelsea Defender David Luiz, he hatcheted him. It was a slaughter, a butchering. Aguero has been suspended four games as punishment for his destroying of Luiz, and that was expected.
Whether it was sufficient enough or too lenient, is up to you to decide. What’s really not debatable though is the virtue of Luiz’s postmatch reaction. Credit him for taking the high road and refusing to discuss the play in the postgame media opportunities.
He was very classy, when you consider how much he got mangled, and that the play incited a brawl! One guy who did discuss the demolishing was Chelsea Defender Gary Cahill, who had an adventurous game himself.
Gary Cahill hurt his side with an early own goal, but Chelsea dug out of the early hole and went on to win 3-1. Aguero is a much better player and a classier guy than that disgraceful play conveyed on Saturday, and Cahill pointed that out.
“Maybe it was a bit of frustration,” Cahill told The Mirror. “It was unlike him [Aguero], it was out of character for him. It looked a bad tackle, out of character, it is disappointing to see that.
“They’d had a battle, him and David, and sometimes a bit of frustration spills over.”
“It was a crazy tackle, not like him.”
Totally agree with Gary Cahill, in that this was completely uncharacteristic. We shall see what the Football Association rule on Sergio Aguero.
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