{"id":25862,"date":"2026-07-02T23:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/25862\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T23:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:19:19","slug":"youri-tielemans-addresses-on-pitch-scuffle-with-leandro-trossard-as-belgium-team-mates-pulled-apart-during-world-cup-last-32-win-over-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/25862\/","title":{"rendered":"Youri Tielemans addresses on-pitch scuffle with Leandro Trossard as Belgium team-mates pulled apart during World Cup last-32 win over Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tielemans eventually completed the turnaround by converting a 125th-minute penalty \u2013 the latest goal in World Cup history \u2013 to secure Belgium&#8217;s spot in the round of 16. Speaking after the final whistle, the midfielder was quick to dismiss any suggestions of a lasting rift with Trossard, insisting that the clash was merely a symptom of their collective will to win on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks highlighted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/49246195\/belgium-youri-tielemans-downplays-leandro-trossard-clash-part-football\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">ESPN<\/a>, Tielemans downplayed the incident when questioned by reporters: &#8220;No, look, those are the emotions of the moment. We&#8217;re all winners. We all want to win. To do things right. To represent our country well, that&#8217;s all part of it. That&#8217;s part of football. Afterwards, there was no issue. So yeah, just a match.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tielemans eventually completed the turnaround by converting a 125th-minute penalty \u2013 the latest goal in World Cup history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,14467,14335,4570,1849,14704],"class_list":["post-25862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-vs-senegal","tag-l-trossard","tag-senegal","tag-world-cup","tag-y-tielemans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116852946517374769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}