Pink playing cards have been issued to 23 gamers after a mass brawl broke out between Brazilian golf equipment Cruzeiro and Atletico Mineiro within the Campeonato Mineiro remaining.
Kaio Jorge scored the winner in Belo Horizonte as Cruzeiro, managed by former Brazil boss Tite, edged rivals Atletico 1-0 to change into the champions of the state of Minas Gerais for the primary time since 2019.
However the match was marred by a violent melee within the dying seconds, which compelled safety workers and navy police to intervene and resulted in 23 gamers, together with Atletico’s former Brazil ahead Hulk, being despatched off retrospectively.
The mass confrontation started when Atletico goalkeeper Everson pushed Christian to the bottom and planted his knee on the chest of the Cruzeiro midfielder, who had collided with him whereas chasing a unfastened ball.
Christian’s team-mates instantly confronted Everson, shoving the keeper onto the goalpost, triggering wider points as extra gamers joined in whereas safety workers tried to separate the groups.
Although no pink playing cards have been issued by referee Matheus Delgado Candancan through the sport, Brazilian media outlet Globo reported, exterior 23 gamers have been despatched off later as a result of the battle stopped the match official from displaying the playing cards on the sector.
Cruzeiro had 12 gamers together with goalscorer Jorge despatched off. Former Atletico Madrid and Nottingham Forest full-back Renan Lodi and Hulk have been among the many 11 Atletico gamers dismissed.
“It is regrettable,” Hulk mentioned after the incident.
“We can’t set that instance as a result of it finally ends up having repercussions all all over the world. We’ve a duty to safeguard our picture and the picture of the establishment.”
Each Atletico and Cruzeiro are winless after 4 Serie A video games this season and sit seventeenth and nineteenth respectively within the Brazilian prime flight.
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