Kevin De Bruyne interview ‘regular’, Belgium boss says amid retirement hypothesis

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Kevin De Bruyne interview ‘regular’, Belgium boss says amid retirement hypothesis

Belgium supervisor Domenico Tedesco stated captain Kevin De Bruyne’s “emotional and disappointed” public criticism of his aspect was “fine” after their 2-0 defeat in France within the Uefa Nations League.

De Bruyne, who scored twice within the Pink Devils’ 3-1 win at house to Israel of their marketing campaign opener on Friday, revealed he had addressed his team-mates at half-time in Lyon, including that “other things are unacceptable” within the nationwide aspect.

Extra worryingly for Belgium, the 33-year-old was caught sharing an trade with technical director Frank Vercauteren on the pitch through which he was interpreted by some Belgian journalists to have stated “I’ll stop”.

Kevin De Bruyne interview ’emotional’

“Kevin has the mentality of a winner,” responded Tedesco, telling Belgian outlet VTM, by way of Nieuwsblad, that he had not heard De Bruyne’s interview.

“He’s emotional and disillusioned and that’s tremendous. I’ll analyse that later. The sensation is that we misplaced management after 25 minutes.

“Sure, it’s regular to be disillusioned. We wanted to attain within the first 25 minutes as a result of we had three good possibilities – 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.”

Requested about recommendations that De Bruyne may give up worldwide soccer, 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.”

De Bruyne: Belgium ‘have to be better’

The Manchester Metropolis midfielder was forthright in his views. “I can’t say here what went wrong,” he stated. “I already did that to the crew at half-time.

“I cannot repeat that in the media but it has to be better in every way. If the standard we want to reach is the best but we’re no longer good enough to get to that level, then you have to give everything. If you don’t even do that, it’s over.”

The four-time Metropolis participant of the season may “accept” that Belgium’s present squad is inferior to the one which reached the semi-finals of the 2018 Fifa World Cup.

“I was the first to see that but other things are unacceptable,” he stated. “I’m not going to say what.”

France vs Belgium

Belgium went 13 video games unbeaten following the appointment of former Spartak Moscow and RB Leipzig boss Tedesco in March 2023.

Their first defeat of his reign was a shock setback towards Slovakia of their opener at Uefa Euro 2024, through which they beat Romania and drew with Ukraine earlier than being knocked out with a 1-0 defeat to France.

Randal Kolo Muani scored within the twenty ninth minute and Ousmane Dembele added the 57th-minute second in Belgium’s newest defeat, leaving them three factors behind Group A2 leaders Italy.

“It’s difficult to judge other teams, so I have to judge my own team,” stated Tedesco. “Once we speak about France, you see what sort of gamers they’ve in defence, what sort of gamers they’ve in midfield.

“We have to understand that we’re going home with zero points after this game. That hurts.”

Belgium go to Italy on October 10 (7.45pm BST) and host France 4 days later (7.45pm). Metropolis are at house to Brentford within the Premier League on Saturday (3pm).

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