Belgium manager Domenico Tedesco said captain Kevin De Bruyne’s “emotional and disappointed” public criticism of his side was “fine” after their 2-0 defeat in France in the Uefa Nations League.
De Bruyne, who scored twice in the Red Devils’ 3-1 win at home to Israel in their campaign opener on Friday, revealed he had addressed his team-mates at half-time in Lyon, adding that “other things are unacceptable” in the national side.
More worryingly for Belgium, the 33-year-old was caught sharing an exchange with technical director Frank Vercauteren on the pitch in which he was interpreted by some Belgian journalists to have said “I’ll stop”.
Kevin De Bruyne dépité hier après la défaite de la Belgique 🇧🇪.
Dans cette séquence, certains journalistes belges voient Kevin De Bruyne dire « Ik Stop » (“𝗝’𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲̂𝘁𝗲”) faisant craindre une retraite internationale du Diable Rouge.
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Kevin De Bruyne interview ’emotional’
“Kevin has the mentality of a winner,” responded Tedesco, telling Belgian outlet VTM, via Nieuwsblad, that he had not heard De Bruyne’s interview.
“He’s emotional and disappointed and that’s fine. I’ll analyse that later. The feeling is that we lost control after 25 minutes.
“Yes, it’s normal to be disappointed. We needed to score in the first 25 minutes because we had three good chances – not small ones.
“But this is a problem we’ve had for a long time. If you want to achieve something here against France in France, you have to take your chances, especially when you have such a dominant start.”
Asked about suggestions that De Bruyne could quit international football, Tedesco replied: “No, no – look, we are very emotional after the game. It’s human. We have to calm down and we will analyse [matters] at a very good moment.”
30 goals for Belgium. 👑🇧🇪…
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Author : Ben Miller
Publish date : 2024-09-10 10:52:45
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