Lucas Bergvall’s first purpose for Tottenham secured a 1-0 win over Liverpool within the English League Cup semifinals on Wednesday in a first-leg match notable for a serious-looking damage to Rodrigo Bentancur and the primary in-stadium announcement by a referee within the English sport.
The 18-year-old Bergvall slotted dwelling the winner within the 86th minute following a cross from Dominic Solanke, who thought 10 minutes earlier that he had given Tottenham the lead. That purpose was dominated out after a VAR verify for offside and referee Stuart Attwell communicated the choice through a wi-fi microphone to spectators inside Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and to TV viewers.
Within the sixth minute, Bentancur — the Uruguay midfielder who performs for Tottenham — fell to the bottom and lay susceptible after touchdown awkwardly when trying a header from a nook. He was carried off on a stretcher, to applause from across the floor, after receiving therapy throughout a 10-minute delay and Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou confirmed after the sport that Bentancur was “acutely aware” and speaking.
The second leg is at Anfield on Feb. 6.
Newcastle leads Arsenal 2-0 after the primary leg of the opposite semifinal match.
Liverpool, the defending League Cup champion, noticed its 24-match unbeaten run in all competitions come to an finish and there was a touch of controversy about solely the workforce’s second lack of the season.
Visiting gamers and supervisor Arne Slot had been sad that Bergvall was on the sphere to attain what proved to be the profitable purpose after he escaped amassing a second yellow card for a foul on Kostas Tsimikas moments earlier. Certainly, Tsimikas was off the sphere, ready to come back again on having obtained therapy following Bergvall’s sort out, when the Sweden midfielder tucked dwelling his end.
Slot earned a yellow card himself for his protests, although he shook Attwell’s hand after the ultimate whistle.
“The choice he made had lots of impression on the outcome tonight,” Slot mentioned.
Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk mentioned it was “fairly apparent” that Bergvall deserved a second yellow card.
“And a minute later he scores the winner,” Van Dijk mentioned. “He (Attwell) made a mistake, in my view. And I informed him that.”
It was a busy finish to the match for Attwell, who took middle stage after there was a video overview following Solanke’s strike within the 76th minute. After being notified that Solanke was offside, Attwell used the general public handle system to declare the purpose had been dominated out, in an NFL-style announcement.
The League Cup semifinals had been chosen to pilot a course of in England that has been broadly utilized in different sports activities, and in soccer on the Girls’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 and different FIFA occasions.
Kinsky’s dream debut
Three days after signing from Sparta Prague, Antonín Kinský — a 21-year-old goalkeeper from the Czech Republic — was handed his debut by Tottenham and he stored a clear sheet after producing a string of nice saves, notably from Liverpool substitute Darwin Nunez.
His mother and father and sister had been within the crowd to look at him play his first match in English soccer and he was emotional after the sport.
“I’ve by no means dreamed this,” Kinský mentioned.
Tottenham signed the extremely rated Kinský with first-choice goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario at the moment out injured.
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