Premier League admits Cuti Romero injury culprit should've seen red | OneFootball

When Cristian Romero collided with his own goalkeeper, Antonín Kinský, suffered a heavy blow, and left the field in tears during Tottenham’s defeat to Sunderland, everyone in the Argentina national team feared the worst. Fortunately, amid the bad news, it turned out to be the least severe outcome, and although he will not play for the rest of the season, Cuti will be available for the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

Nearly two weeks after the unfortunate incident, the Premier League acknowledged that Brian Brobbey should have been sent off after pushing the Córdoba-born defender in the back, causing the collision with the goalkeeper that led to the injury to the collateral ligament in his right knee. That was the ruling of the Premier League’s Key Match Incidents Panel (KMI).

The player who committed the foul had already been booked at the time of the push, so it was deemed that he should have received a second yellow card and, therefore, a red. The panel voted three to two in favor of classifying the action as “unnecessarily reckless” and worthy of a sending-off. They also indicated that referee Rob Jones made five similar mistakes involving second yellow cards not shown, the highest number among referees in the English league.

Of course, the sending-off would not have prevented Cuti Romero’s injury, but it could have changed the course of the match, which ended 1-0 in Sunderland’s favor and further harmed Tottenham in their fight to avoid relegation. Spurs are currently third from bottom, in the Championship relegation zone, with five matches remaining.

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