Ibra & Matrix Not Speaking – Report
Inter Milan pair Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marco Materazzi are no longer on speaking terms, according to the Gazzetta dello Sport.
Materazzi was sent off after just half-an-hour of Inter’s Champions League last 16 first leg tie at Liverpool on Tuesday night, a game that would finish 2-0 to the English-outfit.
After the game Ibrahimovic appeared to blame the Italian defender for the defeat when a journalist shouted at him, “What happened?”, to which the Swede angrily replied, “Why don’t you go and ask Materazzi what happened?”
Ibrahimovic has tried to insist that he hasn’t fallen out with his team-mate and that he wasn’t blaming Materazzi.
"My sentence about Materazzi was one only based on fact - that the incident [his dismissal] had influenced all concerned,” the striker stated.
"So, then it was right to ask him whether his sending off was the right decision or not."
Nevertheless despite these comments, the Gazzetta says that the pair have certainly fallen out.
Both players were at a media function in London yesterday and refused to speak to each other. This caused tension among the rest of the Inter squad, and was a cause for embarrassment for everyone present.