Kompany Hantam Bek Swansea, Taylor Bagai Dipukul Mike Tyson
Neil Taylor Left Looking Like He`s Fought Mike Tyson after Collision with Kompany
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
PEMAIN bertahan Swansea City, Neil Taylor tampak seolah-olah sudah bertinju 15 ronde di ring tinju setelah pelipis matanya robek akibat dihantam oleh kapten Manchester City Vincent Kompany saat laga Sabtu malam di Stadion Etihad, Manchester.
Taylor tampak kebingungan saat ia ditangani tim medis dengan darah mengalir di sisi kiri wajahnya dan kembali ke lapangan beberapa menit dengan mata sembab setelah disemprot untuk menghentikan pendarahan dan mengurangi nyeri.
Kompany kembali bertanding, mendukung Manchester City setelah cedera betis, dan kejadian bermula ketika Kompany melompati Taylor untuk menahan bola dan siku lengannya menghantam Taylor saat laga baru berlangsung setengah jam, seperti dilansir MailOnline.
Kompany mendapat peringatan dari wasit Neil Swarbrick yang kemudian memberinya kartu kuning karena melakukan pelanggaran terhadap Wilfried Bony. Mesklipun begitu bos Swans Garry Monk tidak menyalahkan kapten Manchester City.
'Neil tampak lebih tampan sekarang. Bekas luka akan membuat wajahnya lebih tampan," canda sang pelatih.
"Saya melihatnya sebagai naluri pemain untuk menahan bola dan bukan disengaja atau berniat jahat terhadap pemain lawan. Neil pun tidak mengeluh terhadap luka yang dideritanya di kamar ganti meskipun dia terluka."
SWANSEA City defender Neil Taylor looked as if he had gone 15 rounds in a boxing ring after receiving a badly-cut eye following a challenge by Manchester City skipper Vincent Kompany during Saturday's game at the Etihad Stadium.
Taylor looked dazed as he was treated on the touchline with blood streaming down the left side of his face and returned to the pitch a few minutes with his eye virtually closed after being sprayed to heal the wound.
A pumped-up Kompany, back in the Manchester City team after a calf injury, led with his arm and a high boot as he jumped above Taylor in an aerial challenge after half-an-hour and appeared to catch his opponent with the point of his elbow.
Kompany was warned by referee Neil Swarbrick who then booked him soon afterwards for a foul on Wilfried Bony. Swans boss Garry Monk didn't blame the Manchester City captain though.
'Neil is better-looking now. The scars will do him some good,' he joked.
'I didn't see the actual challenge but I don't think it was intentional or had any malice in it. Neil didn't mention in the dressing-room afterwards anything untowards had happened.'
