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Man City defender Stones hints Chelsea getting away with brawl...

Manchester City defender John Stones felt they deserved more from Saturday's defeat to Chelsea.

Sergio Aguero's late tackle on David Luiz sent the game into a frenzy resulting in a mass brawl between the two sides.

Aguero was given his marching orders by referee Anthony Taylor for the challenge and Fernandinho was also shown a red card for grabbing Cesc Fabregas around the throat.

But after the 3-1 defeat, Stones thought Manchester City were a little hard done by and claimed the referee's decision were unbalanced.

"In those situations you go in there and back your team-mates up, both teams do that," Stones told BBC Sport.

"I don't want to say too much and get in trouble for saying things but I think we have ended up on the bad side of what happened.

"I know Sergio's tackle was in no way good, but what happened after that when a few of their boys came in, I didn't think it was fairly balanced."

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