The Belgian international Youri Tielemans He admitted on Wednesday that he won’t be as open Kevin de Bruyne in his public criticism against the performance of his teammates in the defeat against the France last month, but assured the group that the outrage was understandable and that the case was “closed.”
“I won’t tell the press, no. Maybe I wasn’t open to the outside world. Now, Kevin He had said everything within the group and he didn’t care if it was made public or not. We have a young group and maybe they would prefer that everything stayed behind closed doors,” said the midfielder. Aston Villa in an interview published this Wednesday by the newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.
DeBruyne33, strongly criticized the team’s performance after the game where Belgium lost 0-2 against France and, without being named, he also accused the performance of “some” of his colleagues who did not do their job, he said.
In the view of the absence of De Bruyne due to injury and Romelu Lukaku because he got permission from the coach, Tielemans, 27 years old, will wear the Red Devils captain’s armband against Italy and France in the next two matches of the Nations League group stage.
From that position of locker room leader, the midfielder pointed that out DeBruyne He also shared his criticism of the team, and the players understood it.
“Within the group, he said it again in a constructive way. And everyone understood it. Case closed,” he said. Tielemans.
Tielemans recognized the words of the midfielder City of Manchester They were interpreted as a “bomb”, but he added that in reality the player criticized the lack of unity and sacrifice in the collective game in a team that has not yet returned to the level of 2018, when it was third in the World Cup in Russia.
“I think everyone agrees with that. That doesn’t have to be a negative thing. If he says we all have to give 100 percent and run for each other, I don’t think there’s much negative in that. There was also frustration and emotion involved,” he concluded Tielemans.
Source: La Verdad
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