{"id":642571,"date":"2026-10-10T21:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/642571\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:56:16","slug":"a-red-card-then-a-kiss-roberto-de-zerbi-backs-rodrigo-bentancur-after-tottenham-stars-clash-with-manchester-uniteds-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/642571\/","title":{"rendered":"A red card, then a kiss! Roberto De Zerbi backs Rodrigo Bentancur after Tottenham star’s clash with Manchester United’s Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

De Zerbi has delivered a passionate defense of Bentancur, revealing he kissed the midfielder in the dressing room despite his costly red card during Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Manchester United. The Uruguay international was sent off in the second half following a heated touchline altercation with United defender Luke Shaw. The incident occurred shortly after Spurs had fallen behind, leaving the visitors with a mountain to climb as they searched for their first Premier League victory of the new campaign. <\/p>\n

“Today we show we are a team for the first time this season,” the Italian told Sky Sports<\/a>. “We play as a team. We suffer, we dominate the game. But in every situation, we were in the game. Football is like this. I think this character, I like the situation with Rodrigo [Bentancur] with the red card. We need it in this moment, this situation. Not to bring a red card but we have not accepted the defeat.”<\/p>\n

He added: “We have to not accept conceding a goal. We have to react in all ways we can. It’s a bad way, it’s not the right way, but I kissed Bentancur in the dressing room because we need this reaction, this type of reaction with character. Football is character.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De Zerbi has delivered a passionate defense of Bentancur, revealing he kissed the midfielder in the dressing room…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,3157,2619,37131,28288,105,4028],"class_list":["post-642571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-r-bentancur","tag-r-de-zerbi","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}