tussle

A physical fight or struggle.

And the visiting side appeared to settle quickly as Wayne Routledge, who had a tough tussle with Stevenage left-back Scott Laird, delivered an early cross that Barton drilled goalwards, forcing a decent save from Chris Day.

..., two young men—field hands—got into a tussle with a white man.

A conflict, an argument, a disagreement.

To have a tussle.

The two sets of fans were tussling before the game.

Olsson and Herd tussled off the ball at a free-kick before Olsson fell to the ground. Assistant referee Darren Cann signalled for a penalty and Dowd sent Herd off to the amazement of the Villa faithful.