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“I cannot feel them yet but my mouth is very sore and painful. What is worse, all I can eat is soup.”

Oliver, who will miss the remainder of the season, has studied the video countless times and is convinced Szetela’s action was deliberate.

”I don’t know who that player is. I never spoke to him and he didn’t even say sorry. I don’t know what type of person he is but how he can sleep with that at night, I just don’t know.”

Szetela was show a yellow card, played the remainder of the match, and is not facing any sort of sanction. And that infuriates both Oliver and Fury management.

“The images are very clear,” Oliver said. “The league has to analyze them and do something. I would like him to be punished for what he did and not be allowed to play while I can’t play. I’m out for the rest of the season and I don’t believe it is right that he will be playing on Saturday.”

The Fury have lodged two complaints. The first calls for an assessment of referee Daniel Fitzgerald’s control of the game; the second demands the league look at evidence and take appropriate action.

The Cosmos won the game in the dying seconds of extra time, which put an end to the Fury’s chances of reaching the NASL playoffs. In addition, Tom Heinemann will miss Saturday’s match with FC Edmonton at TD Place.

He had become increasingly infuriated by the officiating, was given two yellow cards — both in extra time — and was ejected from the game moments before the final whistle.

“If you look at the yellow Szetela got, it is clearly a red,” said Fury coach Marc Dos Santos. “The league knows our position and we also sent pictures of the Oliver incident. I’m not asking here to be given a tie, the points or a rematch. I’m asking the league to review it and think about how two of our top forwards will be out for the Edmonton game and Szetela will play. Tell me, is that fair?”

The Cosmos midfielder collected five yellow cards in 13 games with the Cosmos in 2013 and has seven yellows in 22 appearances in 2014.

NASL spokesperson Neal Malone would not speak to the Ottawa complaints but said it was league practice that every controversial or borderline play in any game is reviewed by the disciplinary committee.

With three weeks left in the regular season, he refused to suggest a set time for a decision. “It could be a couple of days. It could be a couple of weeks,” he said.

That, according to the frustrated and angry Oliver, “is not acceptable.”