Wild scenes in City's win! Security steps in, tunnel rocks

Wild scenes in City's win! Security steps in, tunnel rocks There was plenty of explosive drama in this one! Emotions boiled over between Manchester City and Porto on more than one occasion last night. It all started in the first half with a foul by Marc Guéhi on Gabri Veiga. In an aerial duel, the Man City star caught his opponent on the head with his arm, sending Veiga to the ground bleeding. The home side called for a sending-off, but the referee decided against showing either a yellow or red card. The players went into halftime still seething. According to English media reports, that led to a confrontation in the tunnel on the way to the dressing room. City goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli was allegedly shoved by FC Porto officials. Ruben Dias is then also said to have pushed coach Francesco Farioli away. "Security staff from both teams had to step in to separate players and staff from both sides as they entered the tunnel," Amazon Prime reporter Gabriel Clarke said. According to reports from inside the stadium, the tunnel could even be seen "shaking" during the confrontation between the teams, English outlet The Sun also reported. When Enzo Maresca was asked about the scenes involving Dias in the tunnel after the game, the coach was visibly fed up: "How many times did you see me or my bench get up? Zero times in 95 minutes. How many times did you see their bench?..." But it would not be the last flashpoint of the evening. Shortly before the end of the match, Erling Haaland and Pablo Rosario clashed on the pitch. 📸 Clive Brunskill - 2026 Getty Images Haaland was hauled to the ground by Rosario, after which the two hotheads had to be separated by their teammates. Referee Szymon Marciniak showed both players a yellow card shortly afterward. Reporter Adrian Durham of English radio station talksport strongly criticized Marciniak’s handling of the incident. "Really naive from the referee," he said on air. "Rosario is basically just trying to get Haaland sent off, and that’s a disgrace. A really weak refereeing performance." Haaland himself did not comment on the melee after the final whistle, but speaking to the club’s in-house media he was realistic: "We knew it was going to be a tough battle. Under enormous pressure, we had to deliver on the biggest stage, and we did that today." The striker had plenty of reason to celebrate anyway: along with being named Man of the Match and scoring both goals in the 2-0 win, he also drew level with a club legend. The Norwegian has now scored as many Champions League goals for Manchester City as Sergio Aguero (36). That means he needs just one more to move past the Argentine. In the all-time Champions League scorers list, Haaland also moved ahead of Thomas Müller and now sits seventh with 59 goals in total. Particularly remarkable is his average of exactly one goal per game. For comparison, Lionel Messi needed 80 appearances in Europe’s premier club competition to reach 60 goals in the tournament. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.