Chile’s Gonzalo Jara and Uruguay’s Edinson Cavani faced each other for the first time since the former was given a three-match ban for jamming a finger up the latter’s backside during last summer’s Copa America, and this time, Jara was able to keep his digits out of Cavani’s crevices.
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DTotD: Chile’s Gonzalo Jara gets Edinson Cavani sent off with a bad touch
Chile beat defending Copa America champions Uruguay 1-0 in an expectedly feisty quarterfinal match. With Luis Suarez unavailable to lead everyone down the path of anarchy, the responsibility fell to everyone else. And in the 62nd minute, Edinson Cavani was shown a second yellow for slapping Chile’s Gonzalo Jara in the face.
But what the referee and the initial camera angle didn’t catch was where Jara’s hand was before Cavani slapped him…