{"id":86054,"date":"2021-06-16T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=86054"},"modified":"2021-06-16T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:58:28","slug":"euro-2020-i-think-he-nibbled-on-me-paul-pogba-on-antonio-rudiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=86054","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2020: I think he \u2018nibbled\u2019 on me!: Paul Pogba on Antonio Rudiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/euro-2020-hummels-own-goal-helped-france-to-start-their-campaign-on-a-winning-note-beats-germany-by-1-0\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">France got off to a flying start&nbsp;<\/a>in their Europe Championship campaign with a 1-0 victory over Germany. The match was played out in Munich. A first-half own goal from&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/tag\/mats-hummels\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mats Hummels<\/a>&nbsp;was the solitary goal of the game.<\/p>\n<p>However, one interesting thing happened in the match which has shocked many. Chelsea defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/tag\/antonio-rudiger\/\">Antonio Rudiger<\/a> seems to have got a little closer to Pogba than the latter would&#8217;ve liked.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/tag\/paul-pogba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul Pogba<\/a>\u00a0has said that Rudiger tried to &#8216;nibble&#8217; on him during the match.<\/p>\n<p>The two were involved in an altercation before the incident was shown on the big screen. Antonio Rudiger seemed to be leading into Paul Pogba&#8217;s back. The Frenchman had immediately complained to the referee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I&#8217;m not crying for cards, yellow, red cards because of such actions,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0Pogba said.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He nibbled, I think, a little bit on me. But we have known each other for a long time.<\/em>\u00a0I\u00a0<em>told the referee and he takes decisions and he took a decision. It&#8217;s over,&#8221;<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p>However, Paul Pogba also reiterated that they are close friends and know each other for a long time. This is the reason Paul Pogba doesn&#8217;t want Antonio Rudiger to be suspended or receive any punishment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&nbsp;<em>was a great match for us &#8230; and I didn&#8217;t want him to be suspended because of such a situation. It was towards the end of the match. We hugged each other and that&#8217;s it<\/em>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/i-think-he-nibbled-on-me-paul-pogba-on-antonio-rudiger\/\">Euro 2020: I think he &#8216;nibbled&#8217; on me!: Paul Pogba on Antonio Rudiger<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\">The Sports News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Euro 2020: Paul Pogba has said that Antonio Rudiger tried to nibble on him during the France-Germany match.<br \/>\nThe post Euro 2020: I think he \u2018nibbled\u2019 on me!: Paul Pogba on Antonio Rudiger appeared first on The Sports News.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86055,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86054\/revisions\/86055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}