New footage reveals Jude Bellingham’s full-time anger after losing to Chelsea, as he shoved Marc Cucurella in an angry confrontation, pushed aside a camera and threw his water bottle.
Jude Bellingham has been furious at Chelsea’s Marc Cucurella after losing in the Champions League.
Bellingham’s Borussia Dortmund were beaten 2-0, 2-1 on aggregate, by the Blues at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night in controversial circumstances.
The West London side were handed a controversial handball penalty against Marius Wolf, which Kai Havertz was later allowed to retake after missing his first attempt.
England midfielder Bellingham angrily insisted that the referee’s performance was a “joke” after the match.
And the 19-year-old’s post-match fury was revealed in a video posted on social media, showing him confronting Cucurella before taking out his frustration on a cameraman.
Bellingham tried to square Cucurella (left) and shared angry words with the defender
The former Birmingham star threw his water bottle (left) and shoved a camera (right)
Footage shows the England star making eye contact with the smiling Spanish defender before attempting to approach him but is stopped by blues trio Kalidou Koulibaly, Enzo Fernandez and Christian Pulisic.
Bellingham then pushes himself closer, though Koulibaly still pushes him away, and has angry words with Cucurella, who raises her arms in a gesture of innocence.
Dortmund’s Fernández and Gio Reyna pull their teammates away to try and end the confrontation, with the teenager clearly still upset.
He then slams his water bottle on the ground, sending liquid into the air, before knocking the lens away from a cameraman trying to film him walking away.
After the match, he told BT Sport: ‘I haven’t seen the incident again. From where he was standing it looked like he was pretty close and I’m not sure what else he can do with his hands.
Bellingham’s Borussia Dortmund fell 2-0 at Stamford Bridge and was eliminated
A meter or two away, I’m not really sure. I don’t want to get in trouble, I have paid them enough,’ he added, referring to previous fines he paid to governing bodies for contesting arbitration decisions.
However, the 19-year-old could not contain his anger as he spoke about the retake of the penalty, concluding: “I think that in itself was disappointing, and then the fact that they had a retake, I think it’s a joke.
‘For every penalty, especially when you have such slow acceleration (stuttering), there will be people encroaching on the box by a yard or so. But I guess that’s the game, he made the decision and we had to live with it.’