Cardiff players fight with each other after defeat to Nottingham Forest as as Leandro Bacuna appears to gouge the eye of team-mate Callum Paterson.
The duo had to be separated by their team-mates after clashing heads at full time to top off what turned out to be a dismal evening for the Welsh side.
Well… ?
Cardiff players Leandro Bacuna and Callum Paterson turn on each other at full-time after their defeat to Nottingham Forest. pic.twitter.com/mbmzRJ2qJ9
— Tom Carnduff (@TomC_22) February 25, 2020
Cardiff manager Neil Harris played down the incident as ‘passion’.
He said: “In the heat of the moment, I’ve got no problem with that. I’ve got no complaint at all about passion. They came into the dressing room cuddling.”
Harris reflected on his first home defeat since taking charge back in November with the result leaving the Bluebirds 10th, six points off the place off places.
Once again a controversial decision by the referee cost his side a penalty at the end of the first half.
Just Cardiff City's Leandro Bacuna and Callum Paterson trying to fight each other after losing to Nottingham Forest
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Harris added: “When a referee gets it wrong he goes home and he is all right. For us that is two games in a row here that the referee’s decisions have cost us.
“It was a big moment in the game on the stroke of half-time. Who knows what might have happened if we’d got the penalty and scored it?
“He (Matty Cash) got nowhere near the ball. The ball was the wrong side of the player making the attempt. He kicked Josh (Murphy) and he had no option other than to go over given the speed he was running at, so it’s a penalty for me.
“They were a team we thought we could catch, but that’s going to be difficult now with games running out.
“We have to keep pushing to get back in contention for the play-offs. We need to turn the draws into wins because games are running out.
“We’ve got another huge game at the weekend against Brentford and while there is an opportunity we have just got to keep pushing.”
Fans gave their reaction after seeing the Cardiff players fight with each other at the end of the Championship clash…
Actually that's exactly what you want to see a bit of passion and fire when you're disappointed with a loss
— Rich (@Richard_14) February 26, 2020
Brilliant. Love to see passion from players. The FA is killing the sport with rules that limit players from showing passion like taking you shirt off etc. Nice to see.
— Boxing Brain (@boxingbrain1234) February 26, 2020
Why is that something you don’t want to see? It shows that the players give a shit about winning for there club.
— Pete Howarth (@cafc153) February 26, 2020
Oh it is what we want to see
— sarah (@sarahcodd1) February 26, 2020
Love to see it
— Laura ? (@LauraMargaret_X) February 26, 2020
Bacuna must have ate the last pie
— Lucas Rowell (@lucasrowell1) February 26, 2020
Should of been red for Bacuna. If he does that to an opposing player he's off.
— Callum Land (@CallumLand) February 26, 2020
— Newark Dave ⚽️???????????? (@DavidBell_1967) February 25, 2020
— Joseph Knoyle (@JoeKnoyle) February 25, 2020
It was probably bacuna. Always been a little cunt he has. Bad attitude
— AfroScrote (@AfroScrote) February 25, 2020
They were arguing over Matty cash’s shirt #nffc
— Luke Musto (@lukeymustard) February 25, 2020
Woeful again,Bacuna and paterson nearly fighting,harris straight down tunnel again,win or lose clap your fans
— bluebirdsgossip (@bluebirdsgossip) February 25, 2020
— ForeverJACK #backtojack (@ForeverJACK) February 25, 2020
Anyway, Bacuna is a braver man than I. Imagine thinking you're harder than Calum 'MD 20/20' Paterson?
— View From the Ninian (@ViewFromTheNin) February 25, 2020
You love to see it ?
— Eddy (@ChrisEddy_7) February 26, 2020
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