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Published 07:35 27 Apr 2017 BST
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After being struck, Sanchez counted to five and fell in the heap like he had just been gunned down from behind the grassy knoll.
It was all a little unedifying.
You may have thought Sanchez was faking an injury to waste time or trick the referee into handing over possession but last night the 28-year-old former Barcelona attacker took to Twitter to prove he had been the victim of a footballing assault.
First off, a warning to readers: This is in no way unsuitable for people of a sensitive nature.
This is the sort of cut that, if a toddler cried after receiving, you would tell them to jog on and act their age.
If you did it shaving you would not even reach for a sliver of toilet paper.
It is, in essence, a mere scratch.
It is not worth tweeting a picture of and it definitely does not require that giant novelty bag of ice that Sanchez is holding to his mouth.
https://twitter.com/Alexis_Sanchez/status/857342070419316736
In Sanchez's mind it is a "swollen lip".
His former team-mate Lionel Messi had a swollen lip on Sunday but scored two goals in El Clasico.
https://twitter.com/DrAli29/status/856256654979080192
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