Zlatan Ibrahimovic gets one-match ban for red card against Chelsea

• Uefa punish Sweden striker for his tackle on Oscar in Champions League
• PSG’s Serge Aurier is given three-match ban for social media ref comment
• Ibrahimovic’s foul-mouthed rant
• Chelsea acted ‘like babies’ over red card
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 Paris Saint-Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic gestures to the referee after a tackle with Oscar during the Champions League clash with Chelsea. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images
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Thursday 19 March 2015 17.05 GMT Last modified on Thursday 19 March 2015 17.41 GMT
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been handed a one-match ban by Uefa for his sending off against Chelsea.

The Paris Saint-Germain striker was dismissed during the Champions League last-16 clash at Stamford Bridge last week.


Uefa also handed a three-match suspension to PSG’s Serge Aurier for insults he posted on social media about the referee after the bad-tempered second leg match which ended in a 2-2 draw and gave Laurent Blanc’s men qualification on the away goals rule after a 1-1 draw in the first leg.

Ibrahimovic was sent off by the Dutch referee Bjorn Kuipers in the first half after he went into a tackle with Chelsea’s midfielder Oscar, a challenge which provoked a group display of fury by the Chelsea team. Nine of their players surrounded the referee and urged him to send the Swede off although TV replays later showed that Ibrahimovic’s challenge was not as bad as first feared.

The player later accused the Chelsea players of acting like “babies” to get him sent off and he will now miss the first leg of the quarter-finals. The draw for that is being made on Friday.

Aurier, who was injured and did not play in the match, made a derogatory remark on his Facebook page about the referee following the dismissal.

The Ivory Coast defender said sorry for his action afterwards on his Twitter account but that did not save him from a three-match ban that will keep him out of the quarter-finals and the first leg of the semis, if PSG get that far.