After Benteke's goal, Dele Alli shoulder-barged Neves during a throw-in unprovoked, petulant, the frustration of a young man who wasn't getting the ball and didn't know how to handle it. Neves didn't react.
He looked at Alli with those calm Portuguese eyes, turned away, and played on. But Sakho saw it. The big Frenchman walked over to Alli during the next stoppage, stood six inches from his face, and said something in English that I couldn't hear but that made Alli take a step back.
Two minutes later, Eric Dier went through the back of Rodríguez with a tackle that the referee, to his credit, punished with a yellow card. Rodríguez rolled on the turf, clutching his ankle, the theatrical pain of a South American masking the genuine fury of a man who had just been kicked from behind.
