FC Barcelona boss Xavi has apologized to Espanyol after Ronald Araujo directed insults to the opposition gamers on Sunday.
Araujo, who had been substituted at halftime by harm turned concerned in a confrontation with Melamed as Espanyol midfielder left the sector.
The Uruguayan appeared to shout and point out ‘two’ to Melamed as a provocation over Espanyol’s potential relegation to the Segunda Division in 2022 with cameras snapping the incident.
Whereas Xavi admitted that he did not see the incident, he apologized on behalf of his participant and said that they needed to respect their opponents.
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“I haven’t seen the incident. We’ve got to respect the opponent, the referee, and the rival followers. We all the time should be respectful, however the rigidity can generally make that arduous. However I apologize, if this has occurred, because it shouldn’t,” Xavi stated as quoted by Marca.
Barcelona appears to have misplaced the sport till Luke de Jong got here with the winner within the dying minutes of additional time within the heated conflict staged on the RCDE Stadium.
Manuel Moralanes, Gerard Pique, and Nico Melamed had been all despatched off in added time as the ultimate seconds turned ugly.
