The former manager of clubs including 1860 Munich, Cologne, Gladbach, Hannover, Bielefeld, Rostock and St. Pauli immediately took aim at half of Real Madrid\u2019s star-studded squad. \u201cThere were five or six blows to the face that Arda G\u00fcler, Brahim D\u00edaz and Eder Milit\u00e3o claim to have suffered during some sort of running duel,\u201d he said, drawing a parallel with R\u00fcdiger, who had repeatedly intervened. \u201cIt\u2019s disrespectful the way he runs around on the pitch!\u201d<\/p>\n
R\u00fcdiger himself had been involved in a separate on-field altercation. Just before Kylian Mbapp\u00e9\u2019s 3\u20132 strike, the Germany international had brought Bayern\u2019s Josip Stanisic crashing to the ground with a challenge that merited a yellow card, then, during his team\u2019s celebrations, leaned in toward the Croatian defender. Afterward, the 26-year-old Stanisic claimed R\u00fcdiger had insulted him. \u201cIn my opinion, that kind of behaviour is completely unacceptable. Only one word was said\u2014and that twice. But you can ask him yourself what he said. Perhaps he\u2019s man enough to admit it.\u201d<\/p>\n
That, Lienen believes, is another reason why national team coach Julian Nagelsmann should leave the centre-back at home for the World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico. \u201cThat incident showed such a lack of respect that it reinforced my belief he should not be put in the position of making that transatlantic journey. It\u2019s dangerous over there,\u201d fumed the 72-year-old.\u00a0<\/p>\n
R\u00fcdiger also clashed with Alphonso Davies. At half-time, with Stanisic booked and replaced by the Canadian, Davies was waiting on the touchline for the referee\u2019s signal when R\u00fcdiger slapped his left hand across his face then shoved him aside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former manager of clubs including 1860 Munich, Cologne, Gladbach, Hannover, Bielefeld, Rostock and St. Pauli immediately took…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4212,266,348,187,85,82,83,2420,369],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-a-ruediger","tag-bayern-munich","tag-bayern-munich-vs-real-madrid","tag-champions-league","tag-laliga","tag-madrid","tag-real-madrid","tag-vinicius-junior","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}