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Stefan Savic and Jack Grealish 'fight in tunnel' as Atletico vs Man City descends into chaos

Jack Grealish has been involved in an apparent physical altercation with Atletico Madrid's Stefan Savic following Manchester City's advancement to the semi-finals of the Champions League.

City have booked a return to Madrid, where they will face Real in the semi-finals of the competition, after drawing 0-0 with Atleti in a hard-fought encounter and winning 1-0 on aggregate.

Tempers flared towards the end of the match when Felipe kicked out at Phil Foden. Former City man Savic charged over to get the Blues midfielder, who was sporting a bandage on his head after being rammed by Felipe earlier in the game, back to his feet.

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Substitute Aleks Zinchenko did his best to keep Savic away from his teammate which then sparked a commotion involving substitutes, staff and players from both sides. Grealish was involved and footage appeared to see him speak to Savic before the centre-back tugged at his hair. Savic also appeared to headbutt Raheem Sterling, too.

Felipe was eventually shown a red card for his swipe at Foden but Savic somehow escaped with only a booking. However, there was a further altercation after the match when Grealish was leaving the field through the tunnel and Savic rushed to catch up with him.

BT Sport commentator Darren Fletcher reported: "Grealish was walking down the tunnel and Stefan Savic caught up with him. All of a sudden there was a commotion at the mouth of the tunnel and people just ran to that area. The two players disappeared from my view but very quickly after four police officers came charging to that area as well.

"I couldn’t tell you exactly what happened, but Savic was involved again. Grealish was trying to leave the field and it was another very unsavoury incident here. Symptomatic of what we’ve seen over the last 15 minutes."

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