BELGRADE, April 28. /TASS/. Montenegrin fan Luka Lazarevic, who injured Russian national team’s goalkeeper Igor Akinfeyev after hurling a flare at him during the 2016 UEFA Euro Cup qualifier in Belgrade on March 27, has been sent to prison for three and a half months and ordered to pay a fine of €750 ($818), local news web portal vijesti.me reported on Tuesday.
The Euro Cup 2016 qualifier between Russia and Montenegro was interrupted in the first minute of the game after Lazarevic had thrown a flare at Akinfeyev. The goalkeeper was carried away on stretchers from the field. The match resumed 25 minutes later. Yuri Lodygin replaced Akinfeyev who was taken to hospital on the field.
The match took place at Podgorica’s Gradski stadium for 17,000 seats.
But the game was eventually cancelled after someone on the stands had thrown a foreign object from the stands at Russian player Dmitry Kombarov.
"When the game started someone lit a flare and dropped close to myself. I instinctively threw it away in the direction of the field in order not to burn myself and the people around me. Unfortunately, the flare hit the goalkeeper who at that moment started running to the middle of the field in the neck. I myself was shocked by what I had done. I would have helped him if I could have descended to the field," Lazarevic said.
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