Individuals typically wish to say a participant or coach received their cash’s price as soon as an ejection turned inevitable. Atalanta captain Rafael Tolói received one thing else.
Issues got here to a head within the 87th minute of a UEFA Champions League match between Atalanta and Membership Brugge on Tuesday. Brugge was within the strategy of ending off a 5-2 win in mixture over the Italian membership, a major upset within the first spherical of the match’s knockout stage.
Because the minutes ticked down on Atalanta’s UCL bid, Tolói acquired some laborious contact from Brugge’s Maxim De Cuyper out of bounds. Tolói by utterly humiliating himself.
His first response was take the ball and spike De Cuyper within the head with it. Nonetheless, the ball slipped out of Tolói’s hand like a cartoon. The throw additionally pushed Tolói off steadiness sufficient that he then fell straight on his face.
De Cuyper then turned his again and jogged away, at which level Tolói charged him and, after pushing previous a ref, slammed him to the bottom. It goes with out saying he acquired a pink card.
The match ended minutes later. Brugge, the champions of the Belgian Professional League final 12 months, will advance to face both Lille or Aston Villa within the Spherical of 16, with one in every of Liverpool or Barcelona ready within the quarterfinal after that.