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Chelsea are not having their best time: They are in tenth position in the Premier League, have several important players injured and Manchester City knocked them out of the League Cup last weekend.
And it was precisely in the duel against the Citizens where there was a curious image between Julian Alvarez and Kepa Arrizabalaga before a maximum penalty is charged.
Why did they criticize Kepa?
As Julián Álvarez was preparing to take a penalty, the Chelsea goalkeeper he approached the Spider to start telling him thingstrying to distract him. However, he failed to do so, as the South American striker scored the goal for City.
But the action did not go unnoticed and also attracted criticism from the Spanish goalkeeper. One of them was from Gary Lineker, a former England player who described Kepa as the “cheap copy of Dibu Martínez”.
“It’s a cheap copy of Emi Martínez. I think Julián Álvarez must have said to Kepa: ‘Brother, I just won the gold medal for the World Cup, I don’t really care what you do,'” he told the BBC.
Why did you compare it to the Dibu?
The Argentine national team and West Ham goalkeeper has been featured throughout his career since they always perform controversial acts to try and distract their rivals.
The most famous occurred in the penalty shootout against Colombia in the 2021 Copa América and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar where he gained more fame.
