Ibra: 'If I'd fought Chiellini...'

By Football Italia staff

Zlatan Ibrahimovic joked about his duel with Giorgio Chiellini. “If we’d been fighting for real, he’d be in hospital.”

The striker revived his clash with Chiellini in Sweden’s 1-0 defeat to Italy at Euro 2016.

“In football you must stay concentrated for 90 minutes, otherwise you get punished by a team like Italy, and that’s exactly what happened today,” said Ibra.

“You can be meticulous for 89 minutes and then allow one chance to lose the game.

“Who did I like most out of the Italy squad? Nobody, they worked as a group very well, they surprised me positively.”

He was asked how his very physical fight with Chiellini went.

“If we’d been fighting for real, he’d be in hospital.”

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