Cristiano Ronaldo is challenged by Payet. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

45 min ago, “There’s no chance Payet took out Ronaldo on purpose,” says Hubert O’Hearn. “Even if there was an NFL-style ‘bounty’ on him, no sane team would ever make their best creator the hit man. Uh uh. No conspiracy here.”
Agreed. He probably wanted to leave a bit on him but there’s no way he would have tried to put him out of the game. I’ll be interested to see it again though because the emails are about 50/50 on whether it was a foul or not
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