Roma issued a press release saying that they assisted and equipped info to the suitable authorities following the alleged assault on Bodo/Glimt coach Kjetil Knutsen.
Nuno Santos, Roma’s goalkeeping coach, reportedly attacked the 53-year-old Norwegian coach throughout Bodo/Glimt’s 2-1 Europa Convention League victory over the Giallorossi yesterday.
Based on reviews, the Portuguese coach grabbed Knutsen by the neck and shoved him towards a wall out of anger.
Right here is Roma’s assertion on the state of affairs in full:
“AS Roma want to observe that, following the conclusion of the match on Thursday night, membership administrators and different members of the teaching employees remained on the Aspmyra Stadion till 00:45 native time, purely for the aim of offering UEFA and native authorities with all the small print of what transpired within the areas exterior the altering rooms following the full-time whistle.
“The membership has complete confidence that UEFA and its varied our bodies will in the end set up with readability and precision the place accountability lies for the occasions that occurred, occasions that we now have already described and defined intimately to all of the related authorities current on website.
“Lastly, the membership want to emphasize that it has at all times performed itself in a way that upholds the values of truthful play and sportsmanship, each on and off the pitch: the identical rules that we hope will likely be on show all through subsequent week’s second leg.”
This isn’t the primary time Nuno Santos has come beneath hearth for his fury; throughout his time at Tottenham, additionally beneath Mourinho, he was given a one-match suspension and fined £8,000 for verbally insulting the referee throughout a 1-1 draw with Newcastle.
