Tottenham suffer worrying blow as 27-year-old stretchered off with head injury in Liverpool clash

Tottenham Hotspur person suffered a worrying wounded stroke successful the archetypal limb of their EFL Cup semi-final with Liverpool, arsenic Rodrigo Bentancur was stretchered disconnected successful the archetypal fractional with a caput injury.

The Uruguay planetary started alongside Yves Bissouma and Lucas Bergvall successful the centre of the parkland for Ange Postecoglou, who was without James Maddison and Pape Sarr owed to suspension.

Within the opening 5 minutes of the archetypal leg, Bentancur went for a diving header from an outswinging country but landed incredibly awkwardly, appearing to bang his caput connected the turf.

After Alisson Becker kept retired a close-range changeable from Radu Dragusin with Bentancur stricken, medics instantly rushed to the midfielder's aid, and play was stopped for implicit 10 minutes portion helium received treatment.

Bentancur concisely sat up earlier lying backmost down, and the erstwhile Juventus antheral was loaded onto a stretcher earlier being replaced by Brennan Johnson pursuing a lengthy delay.

Both Spurs and Liverpool fans stood unneurotic successful applause for Bentancur arsenic helium was substituted, and Postecoglou volition beryllium expected to supply an update successful his post-game property conference.

Bentancur's commencement connected Wednesday was his 20th quality of the season, having antecedently served a seven-game home prohibition for an violative remark helium made astir teammate Son Heung-min and South Koreans.

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