New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- Tottenham's Cristian Romero was suspended for one extra match and fined 50,000 pounds ($67,000) on Friday following his sending off against Liverpool last month.

The Argentina defender admitted a charge of "failing to leave the field of play promptly and/or behaving in a confrontational and/or aggressive manner towards the referee" late in Spurs' 2-1 loss on Dec. 20.

Romero kicked out at Liverpool's Ibrahima Konate, earning a second yellow card of the match. He received an automatic one-match suspension for that incident.

The ban comes in a week when he made more headlines after posting a long message on Instagram in which he apologized to fans for Tottenham's results and went in hard on unspecified people at the ...