FC Porto coach Sergio Conceicao claims that Mikel Arteta insulted his family in Spanish during Arsenal’s victory at the Emirates. After the game, Arteta tried to shake Conceicao’s hand but appeared to get a telling-off from his counterpart instead....CONTINUE READING THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
Both men were clearly furious and had to be pulled apart, as Arteta walked away from the scene shaking his head.
The build-up to the match was dominated by a war of words between the two bosses over their respective approaches to the first leg.
Arteta accused Porto of using a low block with ‘no intention of playing’ and Conceicao hit back by saying: “It’s an opinion. They wanted to play, we wanted to win.”
Those comments were put to Arteta on the eve of the second leg and the Arsenal manager said: “There is no interpretation, those are strong words.”
During the second leg, Conceicao was involved in a separate altercation with Arsenal forward Kai Havertz. The Germany star shoved the Porto boss while challenging for a ball which was already out of play, causing a collision…CONTINUE READING>>
