FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Europa Conference League - Play Off First Leg - Celtic v Bodo/Glimt - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - February 17, 2022 Bodo/Glimt coach Kjetil Knutsen celebrates their first goal scored by Bodo/Glimt's Runar Espejord REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
(Reuters) - UEFA on Friday charged Norwegian side Bodo/Glimt's manager Kjetil Knutsen and Italian club AS Roma's goalkeeping coach Nuno Santos with "serious assault" following their ill-tempered Europa Conference League match in Norway this month.
Following their 2-1 quarter final first-leg defeat on April 7, the Italian side's captain Lorenzo Pellegrini said Santos had been attacked, while Knutsen accused a Roma goalkeeping coach of grabbing him by the throat.
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