Atletico Madrid Players Accused Of Wasting Time, Manchester City Players: That's Their Team

Manchester City's Aymeric Laporte (left) and Phil Foden. (Photo: Twitter @Laporte)

JAKARTA - Manchester City managed to hold Atletico Madrid to a draw in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Thursday, April 14 in the morning WIB. This match ended with the score 0-0.

This match is hot. In fact, there was a commotion near the end of the match. The reason was the action of Atletico Madrid's Stefan Savic, who dragged Phil Foden off the field when he was in pain after being violated by Felipe.

Savic thought, Foden was deliberately wasting time so that Atletico Madrid lost the opportunity to score in that match. Some Los Rojiblancos players also think so.

However, this assumption was firmly denied by Manchester City. The Citizens defender, Aymeric Laporte said, it was precisely the home team who wasted time because they were involved in unnecessary fights.

"What is a waste of time is their team, getting into absurd fights," Laporte said, as quoted by Reuters from Reuters.

"We already know how they are and they always do the same thing. It's always bad to see these fights, a lot of stupidity done with little... I think it's bad for them because they are in the best moment of the game."

Man City manager, an angry Guardiola, refused to answer questions about wasting time. But Man City midfielder Rodri admits there are times where it is necessary.

"When you are locked in behind and when we have five to 10 minutes left we have to play with other weapons," said Rodri.

"I'm not in favor of doing that throughout the game, but on some occasions. What stays on the pitch stays there."

"It was a game with a lot of pressure and I don't really know what happened to Felipe, but it wasn't fun," he added.