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28th Sep 2015

VIDEO: Zlatan Ibrahimovic really had to restrain himself from sinking in a rear naked choke

Forearm across the throat

Darragh Murphy

Has Zlatan Ibrahimovic been hanging around with Alexander Gustafsson?

The PSG striker looks like he’s upped his mixed martial arts game and nearly got the first submission victory of his football career when he started looking for a rear naked choke on Nantes’ Wilfried Moimbe on Saturday.

As it happened, the eccentric forward decided not to put his hooks in and grab his biceps but it looked like he really had to restrain himself from doing so.

We all know that the Sweden captain owns a black belt in Taekwondo but it looks like he’s been working his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu a little bit too.

Ibrahimovic scored in the French champion’s 4-1 victory away at Nantes and was booked in the game but surely attempted choke holds deserve more than a yellow, no?

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