Tottenham star Rodrigo Bentancur may end up finding himself in hot water after the clash between Uruguay and Colombia fans on Wednesday evening.
Clarin cover the player today and how footage has emerged of him throwing a bottle in the melee, which actually ended up hitting a member of his own team’s backroom team.
The newspaper reports that there is a ‘scandal in Uruguay’ as the Tottenham man’s rash decision to throw a bottle could come back to haunt him.
They explain that a member of the Uruguay backroom team, Santiago Ferro, was struck by a bottle in the melee between Uruguay’s players and Colombian fans after their game on Wednesday.
Uruguay players, namely Liverpool’s Darwin Nunez, were seen entering the stands and fighting with fans in order to protect family members after they had reportedly been attacked while with children.
Uruguayan players were seen to be incensed by what had gone on and Clarin report that the Tottenham man took his anger out by throwing a water bottle towards the Colombian section.
However, it appears his throw went astray, with Ferro instead struck as he looked to intercede in the brawl between players and fans.
Images later showed him nursing a cut above his right eyebrow and trying to ward off severe bleeding, although Clarin report that he was not knocked unconscious and was ‘always out of danger’.
The first images of the brawl did not reveal who had thrown the bottle but more detailed analysis, largely done on social media and from more angles, showed that the Tottenham midfielder was the culprit.
A recording taken from a stand far away from the commotion reportedly ‘captured the exact moment’ the midfielder, wearing a substitutes bib, threw the bottle into the stands.
Further footage taken with a drone has also been used and the dots now connected. Bentancur had been among the substitutes after being taken off halfway through the first half due to an injury.
What now comes of the incident remains to be seen but expect to hear more about it in the coming days as the fallout from the incident continues and, perhaps, even more footage emerges.
