Rodrigo Bentancur has said he is “all good” in an Instagram post after being taken to hospital having fallen awkwardly and stayed down for eight minutes during Tottenham Hotspur’s Carabao Cup semi-final first-leg victory over Liverpool on Wednesday night.
Tottenham confirmed at half-time that Bentancur was “conscious, talking and will go to hospital for further checks”. He had stooped to meet a Spurs corner with his head in the sixth minute but the Uruguay midfielder appeared to lose the flight of the ball as he fell to the ground.
Players close to Bentancur immediately signalled to medics that he needed urgent attention while Pedro Porro quickly knelt down next to his team-mate and appeared to put his finger in his mouth. Bentancur was given oxygen