⚽ It wasn’t Bielsa. It was Muslera.
At halftime of the match against Spain, with Uruguay already trailing 0-1 because of one of his own blunders in the 41st minute, Fernando Muslera approached his coach and asked him to take him off. The coach confirmed it bluntly at the press conference: “I did not make the decision to change Fernando. He decided to come off at halftime”. When asked what he had said to the goalkeeper after the substitution, Bielsa was blunt: “Nothing”. 😶
The moment caps off a forgettable World Cup for the goalkeeper amid rumors that the Uruguayan players may have argued in the locker room over the mistake he made, causing him to lose all confidence, something he reflected in his words after the elimination: “I never imagined suffering so much”. 💔
