About a quarter of an hour before the end of the match, with the score 1:0, Sané came to the visitors’ bench for the ball, which Bjelic picked up from the ground and did not want to hand it to him. When the Bayern player reached for him, the coach pushed him away and then grabbed his face. They had to tear them apart.
“I was in my space, I wanted to take the ball and give it to Sané. He dropped in on me and I responded. What I did cannot be tolerated and is unacceptable. I understand the red card,” Bjelica told reporters after the match. “I was a bit upset about the missed penalty. I have to apologize to my team because this is not working. Sané came to provoke me, but of course I shouldn’t have reacted like that,” he added.
“I just wanted to get the ball quickly to start another attack. Then it went a bit downhill and he grabbed my face,” Sané told Bild. “I don’t stay angry for long when something like this happens. I already forgot about it. He was a bit turned off by the situation in our goal. The main thing is that we have three points,” said the German international after the 1-0 win, which leaves Bayern four points behind second-placed Leverkusen.
Union, replaced by Czech midfielder Alex Král, is in 15th place, three points from the relegation zone and the play-off.
2024-01-25 16:06:45
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