Côte d'Ivoire coach Emerse Faé complained after yesterday's game of a 'lack of fair play' by the German team. The incident was triggered by a challenge on the sideline in the 80th minute between Kai Havertz and Wilfried Singo. Singo suddenly grabbed his hamstring, raised his right arm, and deliberately played the ball out of bounds. Julian Nagelsmann was furious that there had been a brief interruption because of that incident. Meanwhile, Nathaniel Brown had verbal altercation with Faé
Faé: "We take such nations as an example to further develop ourselves, and yet I was a bit disappointed by the lack of fair play shown by this German team. As for the young German defender [Brown], I simply told him to stay humble. It’s true, he played a great game, he’s in a very, very strong national team. But I don’t think he needs to speak badly about us just because he’s chasing the game, or because it’s 1-1 and he’d like to win. From a great nation like Germany, you would have expected a bit more fair play when Singo took the ball out of play because he was injured. We would have liked him to give it back to us"