Source: London_Paper
Eduardo should be banned for diving, says Celtic midfielder
ARSENAL striker Eduardo should be banned by UEFA for diving, according to Celtic midfielder Massimo Donati.
The Arsenal forward earned and converted a penalty during the first half of the Gunners' second-leg Champions League play-off to give his side a 1-0 lead and all but end the contest.
But Donati thinks Europe?s elite footballing body should punish Eduardo after it appeared the Brazilian-born striker threw himself to the floor in the penalty area, with little if any contact from the Hoops goalkeeper Artur Boruc.
Boruc was visibly fuming at the referee?s decision to point to the spot and Donati has called for UEFA to use video evidence to reprimand Eduardo.
He said: "If it is clear on TV then UEFA must act against Eduardo and ban him.
"I think he should get a two-match ban because it wasn't a penalty. I told him that and everyone in the Celtic team told him that."
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger acknowledged Boruc did not bring down Eduardo in the penalty incident but claimed his forward was taking evasive action.
'I am not sure that the keeper didn't touch him with his right knee, having seen it again.
"I do not want a penalty which is not a penalty, but I do not go as far to say Eduardo dived.
"He went down, for what reason I do not know - sometimes the players go down because there is no other way to escape the tackling of the keeper, sometimes they dive.
"We got a penalty [against us] two years ago in the quarter-final of the Champions League [at Liverpool] that made the difference when [Ryan] Babel dived - nobody ever apologised to us, it was a blatant dive and nobody spoke about it."
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