{"id":29136,"date":"2025-09-18T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/29136\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:43:07","slug":"atletico-and-uefa-to-review-spit-footage-during-liverpool-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/29136\/","title":{"rendered":"Atletico and Uefa to review ‘spit’ footage during Liverpool match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atletico Madrid will launch an investigation into the mass confrontation that marred their 3-2 Champions League loss at Anfield, with a member of their backroom team appearing to spit into the crowd.<\/p>\n

Atletico head coach Diego Simeone was shown a red card following a heated altercation with a supporter at Anfield that resulted in a melee close to the away bench.<\/p>\n

Subsequent video footage appears to show a member of Simeone’s team spitting into the crowd during the incident, which took place after Virgil van Dijk’s late winner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

European football’s governing body Uefa could also take disciplinary action once it has examined all relevant official reports.<\/p>\n

Atletico have told BBC Sport they will also conduct an investigation into the incident but will not comment publicly.<\/p>\n

Liverpool will provide any relevant CCTV footage and other information to support a potential Uefa probe.<\/p>\n

Simeone had to be physically restrained from confronting a fan who was shouting at him.<\/p>\n

After the game, the Argentine coach said: “It’s never very good when we react as managers, is it? But if there are comments against racism or insults, we can get angry and fight back as well, managers.<\/p>\n

“When they scored the third goal, he [the supporter] turned around and insulted me. When I turned around, I am a person and I’m human.”<\/p>\n

When asked for specifics on the insults, Simone added: “I’m not going to get into the exact nature of the insults.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to get involved with that. I have got to stay in my place. I know what went on behind the manager’s bench.<\/p>\n

“I can’t solve society’s problems in one press conference. I’ve got to live with it because it exists all over the place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid will launch an investigation into the mass confrontation that marred their 3-2 Champions League loss at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-29136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}