West Ham midfielder Edson Alvarez had a fiery confrontation with Chelsea’s Enzo Fernandez during their Premier League match on Saturday.
Chelsea secured a 3-0 victory at the London Stadium, with Nicolas Jackson netting twice in the first half, followed by a brilliant goal from Cole Palmer.
West Ham found it difficult to challenge Chelsea throughout the match, and tempers flared early in the second half after Alvarez received a yellow card for a foul on Palmer, not long after Chelsea’s third goal.
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Fernandez took exception to the challenge on Palmer and angrily approached Alvarez, who covered his mouth but Spanish broadcasters caught the West Ham star saying: ‘I’ll wait for you.’
Alvarez then followed up with: ‘I’ll kill you outside, wherever you want.’ Fernandez then patted Alvarez and replied: ‘Go on, go on.’
The West Ham midfielder was then substituted and eventually replaced by Carlos Soler only six minutes later.
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Speaking after his team’s defeat, West Ham skipper Jarrod Bowen described the defending for Jackson’s opener as ‘schoolboy stuff’.
‘It’s a massively disappointing game, and one that didn’t go the way we wanted it to,’ Bowen said. ‘We’re really disappointed with how we performed and the result as well.
‘The goals were very easy, especially the first one which came from a free kick – it was schoolboy stuff, you never take your eye off the ball.
‘In the Premier League the players you’re playing against have quality and they can really hurt you. We concede a free kick in the middle of the pitch and we need to be savvy about it, maybe take the yellow card to stop a quick one, because a lot of teams would do it against us.
‘The second goal again, I think we were trying to get after the ball, then the striker’s through on goal and it’s 2-0.
‘You come in at half time obviously disappointed to be 2-0 down, but in the second half you have nothing to lose and can throw everything at it – but we conceded after 90 seconds which again takes the stuffing out of us. It’s a disappointing day all round.’
