Kepa Arrizabalaga Reveals His Reasons for Refusing to be Replaced by Maurizio Sarri

DBasia.news –  There was an interesting moment in the 2018-19 League Cup final between Chelsea against Manchester City at Wembley Stadium on Sunday (24/2) night Western Indonesian Time. Kepa Arrizabalaga, the Chelsea goalkeeper, did not want to be replaced by Maurizio Sarri and the player explained the situation.

Manchester City won victory through a penalty shootout with a score of 4-3 after playing without a goal for 120 minutes. In that match, an interesting incident occurred after Kepa Arrizabalaga refused to be replaced by Willy Caballero.

Kepa arguing that he did not reject Sarri’s decision. The most expensive goalkeeper in the world claimed to only explaining to the manager.

“Yes, first of all, I must say it is a misunderstanding. There is no intention to disobey, or something like that with the manager,” Kepa said as reported by the Soccerway.

“It was two or three minutes of confusion until the medical staff arrived and they explained it well. This has nothing to do with the problem I experienced this week, not that.”

“I tried to explain physically that I was fine. I didn’t know when you saw it from the wild,” said Kepa.

Kepa claimed to have spoken with Maurizio Sarri. He understood that the incident could become a wild ball that everyone talked about.

“Now we have spoken and I said it was fine. He thought I was not experiencing anything. It was during tense times, with things happening,” Kepa said.

“Instead of refusing to be replaced, it was a way of trying to tell the team that I was fine. Among the negative things, we had to take the positive,” said the goalkeeper.

Next, Chelsea will face Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League 2018-2019 advanced match. After that, the Blues will travel to Fulham’s headquarters.