The hilarious Cristian Romero moment at Tottenham that might worry Argentina staff

On Monday evening, Tottenham captain Cristian Romero was inside the stadium and couldn’t hold back his emotions after his teammate Mathys Tel scored against Leeds. The Argentine defender got so carried away that he appeared to take down one of the club’s coaches.

Tel had put Spurs ahead five minutes into the second half at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with a brilliant curling shot. The goal sparked wild celebrations both in the stands and among Tottenham’s injured players watching from the sidelines.

The group included Dominic Solanke, Wilson Odobert, Mohammed Kudus, Ben Davies, Guglielmo Vicario, and Romero—who was sitting next to first team academy transition coach Stuart Lewis.

As the ball hit the net, all the injured players jumped up to celebrate. But Romero went further, sprinting across the technical area and appearing to crash into Tottenham’s set-piece coach, Andreas Georgson. He then grabbed the startled Swede on the ground, got back up, and hugged Djed Spence.

After pouring himself some mate, Romero was fully immersed in the moment with his teammates.

However, his enthusiastic sprinting and barging might have concerned Argentina’s national team officials, already worried about his fitness ahead of the World Cup following a knee injury sustained last month. That injury happened when Sunderland’s Brian Brobbey pushed Romero into Spurs goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky.

Unfortunately for Tottenham, they couldn’t hold on for the win. Tel went from hero to villain just 14 minutes later when he caught Ethan Ampadu with an attempted overhead kick clearance inside his own box.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin converted the resulting penalty, and the match finished 1-1. The draw leaves Spurs just two points above the relegation zone with only two games remaining.

After the match, Romero said: “A big hug and a big kiss. Nothing more because he is a young player, he is a big talent and he scored a great goal.

He made a mistake from inexperience, because he hasn’t played many games in his career, and we have to accept that. But I am proud and happy with the mentality we showed. We didn’t play a great game like at Villa Park, but we played a good game and did enough to win.

We could have lost at the end because in the last 15 to 20 minutes, they didn’t have a single shot on goal—just one in the first half.

We had 14 corners to their two, five scoring chances to their two, and entered their penalty area 50 times compared to 27. We just couldn’t score a second goal.”