{"id":78256,"date":"2022-12-20T16:13:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:24:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T16:24:40","slug":"world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star","title":{"rendered":"World Cup final: It\u2019s embarrassing, pathetic \u2013 Gary Neville slams France star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Manchester United captain, Gary Neville, has hit out at France forward Ousmane Dembele for his performance during his side\u2019s 2022 FIFA World Cup final tie against Argentina on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Neville branded Dembele\u2019s display as \u2018pathetic\u2019 and \u2018embarrassing\u2019 as the Barcelona star was exposed by Argentina winger Angel Di Maria in the World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>During the first half of the match, Dembele gave away a penalty before being hauled off before half-time by France head coach Didier Deschamps.<\/p>\n<p>Dembele had his head in his hands as he clumsily brought down Di Maria in the box, with captain Lionel Messi converting from the spot-kick to give Argentina a deserved lead.<\/p>\n<p>Assessing Dembele\u2019s display at half-time, Neville told ITV Football: \u201cIt is pathetic [from him].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDi Maria\u2019s position has stretched Jules Kounde and the French team, they have not come to terms with it. It is a genius selection from the manager, so well done to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDembele, I know he is a wide player, but honestly, that challenge&#8230; We know what he is going to do Di Maria, he has been doing it for ten years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is embarrassing for him. I am a little bit torn because it is a soft penalty, but you deserve to be found out because of the stupidity of the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDembele gets found out because he gives Di Maria the opportunity. Dembele gets played like a little boy, to be fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Manchester United captain, Gary Neville, has hit out at France forward Ousmane Dembele for his performance during his side\u2019s 2022 FIFA World Cup final tie against Argentina on Sunday. Neville branded Dembele\u2019s display as \u2018pathetic\u2019 and \u2018embarrassing\u2019 as the Barcelona star was exposed by Argentina winger Angel Di Maria in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":78255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[1570,2140,2956,254,9376],"class_list":["post-78256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-gary-neville","tag-nigeria","tag-world-cup-final"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World Cup final: It\u2019s embarrassing, pathetic \u2013 Gary Neville slams France star - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Manchester United captain, Gary Neville, has hit out at France forward Ousmane Dembele for his performance during ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Cup final: It\u2019s embarrassing, pathetic \u2013 Gary Neville slams France star\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Manchester United captain, Gary Neville, has hit out at France forward Ousmane Dembele for his performance during ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-20T15:13:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-20T16:24:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671540245.58.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"World Cup final: It\u2019s embarrassing, pathetic \u2013 Gary Neville slams France star\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-20T15:13:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-20T16:24:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star\"},\"wordCount\":265,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671540245.58.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"gary neville\",\"Nigeria\",\"World Cup Final\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/world-cup-final-its-embarrassing-pathetic-gary-neville-slams-france-star\",\"name\":\"World Cup final: It\u2019s embarrassing, pathetic \u2013 Gary Neville slams France star - 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