{"id":292375,"date":"2025-12-01T02:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292375\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T02:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:47:12","slug":"lucas-paqueta-west-ham-forward-criticises-fa-after-red-card-against-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292375\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Paqueta: West Ham forward criticises FA after red card against Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta says his “ridiculous behaviour” that resulted in a red card in the 2-0 defeat by Liverpool was a “reflection of everything I’ve had to endure”.<\/p>\n

A near-two-year Football Association investigation into the Brazil midfielder ended in July when he was cleared of spot-fixing charges<\/a> by an independent regulatory commission.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Paqueta was shown two yellow cards in quick succession for dissent by referee Darren England for arguing over a decision to award a foul against his team with six minutes left to play.<\/p>\n

After the match, Paqueta commented on X in response to a post quoting commentary from former Hammers goalkeeper and Sky Sports summariser Rob Green, which branded the red card “ridiculous behaviour”.<\/p>\n

“It’s ridiculous to have your life and career affected for two years without any psychological support from the federation,” Paqueta said, while also apologising to his team-mates and the club’s supporters. <\/p>\n

“Perhaps this ridiculous behaviour is just a reflection of everything I’ve had to endure and, it seems, have to continue enduring! <\/p>\n

“I’m sorry if I’m not perfect.” <\/p>\n

The 28-year-old was only returning from a one-match suspension on Sunday after accumulating five yellow cards in the league – having sat out the 2-2 draw against Bournemouth last weekend.<\/p>\n

“I understand that now I have to come across as the villain, it’s hard to live with everything that was caused in my life and in my psyche,” he wrote in Portuguese. <\/p>\n

“I’ll keep trying to ensure they don’t affect me even more. This doesn’t justify my expulsion and that’s why I apologise to the fans and my team-mates.” <\/p>\n

The FA had started its investigation in August 2023 and the 27-year-old was charged in May last year for allegedly getting booked deliberately “for the improper purpose of affecting the betting market”.<\/p>\n

Paqueta had faced the prospect of a lifetime ban if found guilty.<\/p>\n

The regulatory commission found the four charges against Paqueta to be “not proven” following a hearing but he was reprimanded<\/a> and warned about his future conduct for his failure to comply with the investigation into the allegations.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the game, West Ham manager Nuno Espirito Santo said: “I’m not going to comment too much. <\/p>\n

“First of all I’m going to speak to Lucas and try to understand his frustrations and his behaviour.” <\/p>\n

Paqueta joined the Hammers from Lyon in August 2022 and helped the club win the Europa Conference League during his debut season.<\/p>\n

He was reportedly set for an \u00a385m move to Manchester City in August 2023 before the FA investigation came to light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta says his “ridiculous behaviour” that resulted in a red card in the 2-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-292375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}