FC Porto Boss Sergio Conceicao Angry At Mikel Arteta: ‘He insulted my family’

Manager at FC Porto, Sérgio Conceição, was unhappy for two reasons following their Champions League round 16 match at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday: his squad lost, and the Gunners’ coach Mikel Arteta allegedly insulted his family.

Two finest teams in Europe, Arsenal and FC Porto, locked horns at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday to fight for the Champions League quarter finals, but the fight did not end on the pitch.

Both sides accumulated the total of 74 fouls during the double legs in which FC Porto won the first at home (1-0) and lost the second at Etihad Stadium (1-0).

A mandatory penalty shootout which followed ended in Arsenal’s favour, but two coaches were found arguing at fulltime.

Arteta made no mention of any reason for that, but the seemingly-angrier man did.

Sérgio Conceição said the following during the post-match interview:

‘Arteta turned to the bench during the game and insulted my family in Spanish.

‘I told him that the person he insulted is no longer among us.

‘Let him worry about training his team, which has more than enough quality to play a lot better.’

That was not the first time the Portuguese coach openly said that a fellow coach offended him. He said the following in 2020:

‘I’ve got a lot to learn from Pep Guardiola, in the way he pressures referees, talks to opposition players and the opposition dugout.

‘He’s a fantastic example. I have to learn this. We were angels compared to the other dugout.

‘He spoke about our country using ugly words. Guardiola’s attitude was extremely unpleasant.

‘The whole Manchester City dugout was because if anybody should have been complaining, it was the Porto bench, because we were extremely hard done by.

‘I have to apologise to the referees in Portugal, because I complain when I think we are wronged, but comparing the officials of this game and those upstairs in the VAR, international referees have a lot to learn from ours in Portugal.

‘The refereeing had a big bearing on the outcome of this match. [Augustin] Marchesín has his leg in a bad state right now because he was fouled before the penalty award.’

It is the desire of unbiased well-wishers that the quarrel would end so that Arteta and Conceição could move on.

Arsenal holds the first place on the Premier League table, while FC Porto is third in the Portuguese League.

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