Bellingham escapes match ban for goal celebration

The 21-year-old has been fined £25,400 (30,000 euros) and his ban has been suspended for a year.

Uefa looked into the midfielder’s crotch-grabbing gesture toward the Slovakian bench following a late equalizer.

Bellingham refuted claims that the gesture was directed against England’s rivals while he was playing for Real Madrid.

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Bellingham claimed he had “nothing but respect for how Slovakia played” in response to the incident on social media, calling it “an inside-joke gesture towards some close friends who were at the game”.

Bellingham is eligible to play on Saturday, while Turkey’s Merih Demiral will miss two games due to a gesture he made during his team’s victory against Austria in the round of 16.