{"id":862476,"date":"2025-07-14T21:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/ex-super-eagles-defender-advises-joao-neves-following-red-card-incident-against-chelsea\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:12:52","slug":"ex-super-eagles-defender-advises-joao-neves-following-red-card-incident-against-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/ex-super-eagles-defender-advises-joao-neves-following-red-card-incident-against-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Super Eagles defender advises Joao Neves following red card incident against Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Former Super Eagles and West Bromwich Albion defender, Ifeanyi Udeze, has weighed in on Jo\u00e3o Neves&#8217; red card incident against Chelsea at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup final, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Le Parisien<\/em> were stunned in the first half by Enzo Maresca&#8217;s side as goals from Cole Palmer and <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/07\/mikel-jackson-pedro-chelsea.html\">Joao Pedro<\/a> saw the Blues go three goals up in the initial forty-five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Neves has enjoyed a very successful season with PSG, winning the treble and then the UEFA Nations League with Portugal, but the 20-year-old cut a frustrated figure at the MetLife Stadium yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In the 84th minute, the Portuguese midfielder pulled Marc Cucurella&#8217;s hair after the Spanish defender bumped into Neves.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170702\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/imago1064146507-1024x657.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"657\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170702\">Referee Alireza Faghani shows a red card to Joao Neves during the final match between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 at the MetLife Stadium, New Jersey, the United States. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>Get Our Sports News First \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VagMHLcA89MZvw0Btc21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join Our WhatsApp Channel Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/06\/okocha-psg-inter-milan.html\">\u201cWho cares\u201d \u2013 Jay-Jay Okocha reacts to PSG\u2019s Champions League win over Inter Milan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/supereagles-ucl-inter-psg.html\">\u201cFor France as well\u201d \u2013 Super Eagles winger throws weight behind PSG ahead of UCL final showdown against Inter Milan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/lookman-super-eagles-forest.html\"><strong>Nottingham Forest keen on 24G\/A Super Eagles star as PSG exits transfer race<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PSG\u2019s Joao Neves is shown a red card for pulling the hair of Chelsea\u2019s Marc Cucurella during the Club World Cup final. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XUSElSIspa\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XUSElSIspa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1944504468672045123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The referee, Alireza Faghani, initially gave the former Benfica a yellow card, but upon further checks with the VAR, rescinded his decision and gave Neves a straight red card for violent misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Udeze, on punditry duties with<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/bUAWcYT3KoQ?si=j3rWW9tCcOlFTJ4l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Sporty TV<\/a><\/strong>, mentioned Cucurella isn&#8217;t innocent in the act as he should&#8217;ve gotten a yellow card for bumping into a player who was without the ball.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former PAOK man urged Neves to keep a calm head next time, as he understands the frustration of losing a game of huge magnitude.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI do agree Cucurella deserves a yellow card, but the truth is you don&#8217;t retaliate that way, not in that manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you do so, then for sure, the referee would get angry. The referee is in charge of the game, so you don&#8217;t retaliate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever happens, you don&#8217;t take on revenge for yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170701\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/imago1064139155-1024x649.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"649\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170701\">Joao Neves attempts a shot on goal during the Chelsea vs Paris Saint Germain FIFA Club World Cup Final match at Metlife Stadium, New Jersey. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen you&#8217;re three goals down in a final like this, for sure, you&#8217;ll get angry, and whatever happens you want to retaliate, you want to show your anger, but sometimes you need to keep your cool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don&#8217;t need to do that. You&#8217;re a role model to a lot of people, to many players, so you must try as much as you can to remain calm,\u201d the former Super Eagles star concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/imago1064148213-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170703\">Marc Cucurella vies with Joao Neves during the final match between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 at the MetLife Stadium, New Jersey. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite his head loss, Neves had a brilliant 2024\/2025 campaign with <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/tag\/paris-saint-germain\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a>, scoring seven goals and providing 10 assists in 59 games for the Ligue 1 Champions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img alt=\"Soccer Adefolahan Guerreiro\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f64d35abfd960f4a5a400c4bb517f7f0be6c48b655560fbdd37e59d9fc9ca58?s=80&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g\"  height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\">\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/author\/guerreiro\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tAdefolahan Guerreiro\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAdefolahan is a multilingual journalist and writer at Soccernet Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>With a track record of involvement in College sports, Adefolahan is focused on crafting engaging football content and utilising his language skills and extensive sports knowledge to enhance content accessibility for a global audience.<\/p>\n<p>He has interviewed Nigerian stars like Finidi George, Junior Lokosa, and Abraham Onahi Ogbu.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/07\/super-eagles-neves-psg-chelsea.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Adefolahan Guerreiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Former Super Eagles and West Bromwich Albion defender, Ifeanyi Udeze, has weighed in on Jo\u00e3o Neves&#8217; red card incident against Chelsea at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup final, Soccernet.ng reports. Le Parisien were stunned in the first half by Enzo Maresca&#8217;s side as goals from Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro saw the Blues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":862477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3577,129287,2005],"tags":[7956,129286],"class_list":{"0":"post-862476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eagles","8":"category-ex-super","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-eagles","11":"tag-ex-super"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}