Article by Tudor Belivacă – Published Saturday, January 10, 2026 22:49 / Updated Sunday, January 11, 2026 02:22
Aston Villa qualified for the fourth round of the FA Cup after defeating Tottenham with 2-1. At the end of the game, a conflict broke out between Morgan Rogers and Palhinha, and the players and staff members intervened to calm the spirits.
Radu Drăgușin, unused reserve, also ran to the area of the incident to calm the spirits.
PHOTO. Conflict after Tottenham were knocked out of the FA Cup by Aston Villa
Radu Drăgușin (with the yellow vest) / Photo: Twitter
At the end of the game, Ollie Watkins was celebrating in front of the Aston Villa fans and Palhinha went towards the Englishman to push him. Morgan Rogers, the Villa player, demanded an account from the Portuguese and immediately an altercation broke out, according to sportal.gr.
The footballers, but also the members of the staff intervened to settle the conflict, and in the images you can also see Radu Drăgușin who sprinted towards the goal to intervene. Afterwards, the spirits calmed down, and Aston Villa's footballers celebrated the qualification with the supporters.
The team led by Unai Emery started the game better and scored the goals that brought them qualification in the first act of the duel. Buendia scored in the 22nd minute from Malen's pass, following an error by Micky van de Ven. In first-half stoppage time, Rogers scored to make it 2-0 after Spurs' defense was checkmated. In the second half Tottenham reduced the gap through Odobert, but it was too little to qualify for the next round of the FA Cup.
Radu Drăgușin was an unused reserve for the fourth match in a row. After getting 5 minutes in the last match of the 2025 calendar year, the Romanian stopper did not tick any more minutes for Tottenham, with Thomas Frank keeping him on the bench even in the FA Cup match. The Romanian stopper is negotiating his departure from the team.
For Tottenham, there is a duel in the Premier League with West Ham. The match was scheduled for January 17 at 17:00. Aston Villa will face Everton in the Championship on January 18 from 18:30.
