Kai Havertz has protested his innocence after his ugly clash with Dan Burn. Newcastle were left incensed by referee David Coote’s failure to issue a red card after 38 minutes of the tight game at Stamford Bridge.
When asked about the incident, Havertz, who went on to get the winner, said: "People know me not as a player who does things like this. This guy is like seven, eight foot and I have to jump against him. You have to use arms to jump and when I jump he is higher than me, so it is tough.
"I can say sorry because I saw he was hurt and feel bad, but you cannot tell me I did this on purpose.”
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Havertz also reflected on the winning goal and said: “It was amazing to score in the last minute like this. It was very tough. Newcastle made life hard for us. Up front it was tough - they have big defenders, who always tried to block us and foul us.
"But we talked about this at half-time and how to get round this. We dug in, tried to give our best and in the end it was brilliant for us."
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