Ahmed Elmohamady slammed Jamie O’Hara on Twitter for his comments following the extent of Rodrigo Bentancur’s injury for Tottenham Hotspur was reported.
The Tottenham midfielder was injured during his side’s 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa on Sunday when he was tackled by Matty Cash.
The Aston Villa right-back received a yellow card for his challenge, which was the right call, but because Rodrigo Bentancur had to go off injured and now he is out of action until at least February, it has put Matty Cash in the spotlight for the wrong reasons.
Former Tottenham midfielder Jamie O’Hara wrote on Twitter that he is ‘fuming about Cash’ and ‘next time we play Villa let’s make sure the boys remember’.
That’s a below-the-belt tweet from the talkSPORT pundit because he is seemingly implying that the Spurs players should look to injure the Villa man during the reverse fixture.
Well, Villa’s ambassador and the fans themselves read it that way and verbally went at Jamie O’Hara, and rightly so, with Ahmed Elmohamady telling him that he should be ‘ashamed’.
Reaction to Bentancur injury news
O’Hara first wrote: ‘2.5 months for Bentancur injury absolutely gutted he looked decent. Fuming about Cash. Next time we play Villa, let’s make sure the boys remember.’
And Elmo responded: ‘You should be ashamed about what you saying, it’s football and those things happened. Cashy never meant to injure him.’
O’Hara then added: ‘Where in my tweet have I said anything about injuring Cash? Players remember tackles and incidents from games & put extra incentive into the next fixture and add more fuel to go and win, never would want anyone to get injured in a football match so apologies if it looked that way.’
Matty Cash response uncalled for
The verbal bashing, and some of it going well below the belt, towards Cash has been uncalled for. He never went out on that pitch to injure Bentancur.
What is he meant to do at that moment? Villa are under the cosh. Struggling to get into the game. Should Cash just let his player run past him?
It was an attempted tackle that went wrong, a booking was the right call and that’s why he was subbed at half-time because he wasn’t having a great game.
But as Spurs fans cheer and see with Cristian Romero week in and week out, there is nothing wrong with showing some aggression in your challenges.
You can’t love Romero for what he does, but have a problem with others when they show that type of aggression in their tackles.
