A livid Jack Grealish was ‘ready within the tunnel’ to confront Southampton star Oriol Romeu after the pair clashed in Manchester Metropolis’s draw at St Mary’s on Saturday.
The £100million England star was embroiled in a heated change with the previous Chelsea midfielder in the course of the second half of the breathless 1-1 draw on the south coast.
Romeu introduced Grealish down after which appeared to face over him and direct some phrases in the direction of the previous Aston Villa ahead, who was holding his ankle after the incident.
Jack Grealish was ‘ready within the tunnel’ to confront Southampton star Oriol Romeu
The Spanish midfielder fouled the Metropolis star after which stood over and direct phrases at him
Grealish reacted furiously and shortly acquired up off the deck and tried to confront Romeu
However Grealish shortly rose to his ft and chased down Romeu earlier than shoving him within the again. The pair have been shortly separated by their team-mates and play resumed.
Nevertheless, talking on the full-time whistle, Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl revealed Grealish was ready for Romeu within the tunnel to make his frustration on the problem clear.
The Austrian did, nonetheless, insist that the pair settled their variations away from the pitch.
He advised Sky Sports activities: ‘That they had a dialogue with Ori, as a result of Grealish was ready for him within the tunnel due to a number of issues that occurred exterior on the pitch that was not proper.
‘But it surely’s not right here for the cameras, they spoke about it, every part’s good.’
A shock early opener from Saints defender Kyle Walker-Peters helped them to some extent
Runaway leaders Manchester Metropolis have been denied a thirteenth Premier League victory after being held to a 1-1 draw by the battling Saints.
Aymeric Laporte headed a Sixty fifth-minute equaliser for Pep Guardiola’s males following a shock early opener from Saints defender Kyle Walker-Peters.
Kevin De Bruyne and Gabriel Jesus struck the identical publish within the second interval however Metropolis have been unable to discover a winner throughout incessant strain as they didn’t win a top-flight recreation for the primary time since a shock 2-0 loss at house to Crystal Palace means again in late October.
The outcome leaves the reigning champions 12 factors away from second-placed Liverpool, albeit having performed two video games extra, forward of a 17-day break from top-flight motion.
Ralph Hasenhuttl heaped reward on his Southampton crew after they took factors off Metropolis once more
Talking in regards to the recreation, Hasenhuttl added: ‘They (Metropolis) are so good, they’re so unbelievably good. If you wish to press them they all the time discover options and I need to say we have been superb defensively.
‘I feel we needed to do extra deep defending than in the entire season collectively. Across the field, balls are flying in. Unbelievable saves from Fraser [Forster] in the present day.
‘It was a easy state of affairs with the purpose for us after which there was good probabilities within the second half, we had the prospect for a second purpose from [Armando] Broja. He was an enormous downside for us.
‘We’re tremendous happy with what we did in the present day towards a tremendous good crew. Pep doesn’t like to attract towards a crew like us and we did a superb job in the present day.’
