Jamie Carragher: Chelsea players are a 'disgrace' for influencing harsh Zlatan Ibrahimovic red card.

'The reaction from the Chelsea players is disgraceful. It’s something that is sad that is coming into the game. It comes from I think Jose Mourinho’s teams, they have this reaction, it’s not a one off,' added Carragher.

Souness branded the actions of Chelsea's squad 'pathetic'. He said: 'In Jamie’s (Carragher) generation, when someone caught you, the last thing you wanted to show your opponent is that you’re injured, today it’s the exact opposite. If someone brushes you, you want to go down and get them in trouble. That’s how pathetic it is.

'Thank goodness PSG stood up to that and leave here with great credit. They are the proper team.' 

Former Manchester United captain Neville disagreed with his colleagues.

He said: ‘Listening to the lads at half-time, I’m not as damning about Chelsea reacting because partly times it happened during my career when you tried to influence the referee. But for far too many times you’ve seen naive English teams in Europe, that have been done on occasions like that.

'It was very unfortunate, it’s not a red card. I actu

ally think he’s trying to pull his foot away. You look at it and you think Oscar’s foot is as high, if not higher,' Carragher said on Sky Sports.

‘If the referee is the other side then the referee might look at Oscar and give the decision the other way.'

Carragher insisted the actions from the Chelsea players were the deciding factor in the dismissal.

'The reaction from the Chelsea players is disgraceful. It’s something that is sad that is coming into the game. It comes from I think Jose Mourinho’s teams, they have this reaction, it’s not a one off,' added Carragher.

Souness branded the actions of Chelsea's squad 'pathetic'.

He said: 'In Jamie’s (Carragher) generation, when someone caught you, the last thing you wanted to show your opponent is that you’re injured, today it’s the exact opposite. If someone brushes you, you want to go down and get them in trouble. That’s how pathetic it is.

'Thank goodness PSG stood up to that and leave here with great credit. They are the proper team.' 

Former Manchester United captain Neville disagreed with his colleagues.

He said: ‘Listening to the lads at half-time, I’m not as damning about Chelsea reacting because partly times it happened during my career when you tried to influence the referee. But for far too many times you’ve seen naive English teams in Europe, that have been done on occasions like that.

‘Here, we’ve got a team that is shrewd. People at home might not like it but if the boot was on the other foot we’d be calling PSG shrewd. They play the game, that’s what you need to do in European competition over the last 20, 30 years. It’s different trying to gain those advantages.

‘I like the idea that it’s an English team that is shrewd and not the opposition. It comes from Mourinho, he knows how to play the game.’

However, Neville did acknowledge it was a harsh decision on Ibrahimovic:  'It's not a red card for me, I think that's a poor decision from the referee. He must have got his red card out within two or three seconds.'

'They take winning to another level that no other team or manager does that I’ve seen over the years.'

'We all want to win but the reaction of the Chelsea players has definitely played a part and Jose Mourinho’s words in the press conference have worked.' 

Mourinho, in his post-match interview after his side were beaten on away goals, bemoaned PSG’s apparent time wasting but Carragher dismissed such claims as hypocrisy. 

‘Mourinho is the master of time wasting and he did that from the first two minutes at Anfield last year (when Chelsea all but ended Liverpool’s title hopes),' he said.

'I’m not criticising him, I applauded him at the time and I know it’s part of the game, but he can’t complain about PSG and that English football is clean as the only dirty tricks we saw were from Chelsea by surrounding the referee and the reaction was disgraceful.’ 

culled from daily mail Uk