Arsene Wenger accuses Fabinho of cheating during Liverpool loss to Inter Milan

Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said Fabinho cheated to get Alexis Sanchez sent off as Liverpool lost to Inter Milan, but still progressed to the Champions League quarter-finals.

Inter were looking to overcome a 2-0 defeat in the first leg of the last 16 tie and things were going well when Lautaro Martinez scored the first goal of the game on the hour mark.

However, joy turned to despair in just a matter of two minutes as Sanchez was shown a second yellow card for a challenge on Fabinho.

The former Manchester United and Arsenal man got the ball but caught the Brazilian with the follow through, causing the referee to give him his marching orders after a terrible challenge on Thiago Alcantara earned him his first booking.

While there was no question that the Chilean made contact with the Brazilian, the Frenchman felt Fabinho made the most of it, to the point that he was cheating.

‘He rode the line between cheating and being clever,’ Wenger told beIN Sports. ‘Fabinho on this foul he was on the other side, he was cheating, he made more of it.

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‘Maybe he had pain and he was touched by Sanchez. You cannot say it was completely fake. But maybe he could have got up quicker.

‘It’s one of these fouls…when it’s one of your players, you say it’s clever.

‘When you are completely neutral, like we are supposed to be, you would say he could have made less of it, but he touched him well, you cannot say he faked it.

‘But he didn’t want to hurt him, he played first the ball.’

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