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Wolves midfielder Neves blasts Schar for Neto tackle: No excuse

Wolves midfielder Ruben Neves was furious after Fabian Schar's tackle on Pedro Neto during today's 1-1 draw.

Neto avoided serious injury - and Schar a red card - for the challenge.

Neves said: "A lot of physicality out there, really hard for us, we worked so hard for the three points.

"The ref ruled it out [Wolves' second goal] maybe on the screen he saw Neto was too strong for their defender, that is football, hard to take for us."

On Schar's tackle, he said: "Everyone saw it - I truly can't believe, I saw the images already when I went to the dressing room because Neto's leg was scratched from leg to ankle - he was really lucky to be fit after that challenge.

"Like I said to the ref, there is no chance of him to not go to the screen and watch the images because he almost broke the leg - I spoke to Schar as well, he said it was not on purpose, of course it was not, but when it is so dangerous, someone needs to see it.

"On our second goal, Neto just put his body in front of the defender, on that tackle there is no excuse for the Newcastle player to be still on the pitch, it was really, really dangerous."

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