Emmanuel LANGELLIER, Media365: published on Friday, December 09, 2022 at 4:00 p.m
If the England defender left England defender Ben White on November 30, he would have been eliminated due to a clash within the British selection.
After Croatia-Brazil, Netherlands-Argentina and Morocco-Portugal, the fourth and final quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup will take place between England and France on Saturday evening from 8 p.m. French time (10 p.m. in Qatar). The duel is eagerly awaited in the two rival countries. The English, who have never beaten a major side at the World Cup, fear very much Kylian Mbappé, the Blues trigger and the competition’s top scorer with 5 goals. The French are afraid of the beautiful British machine that shows offensive and very dangerous sides without forgetting captain Harry Kane, the axial striker who is one of the best center forwards in the world and the English aerial game.
A tense exchange of blows with the coach’s assistant
That meeting, which Raheem Sterling may be able to hold and who returns to Qatar on Friday after arriving in London following a violent break-in by his family, will not be contested by an Englishman. This is Ben White. The Arsenal defender left the England team on November 30. Officially for “personal reasons”. But according to the Daily Star, the 25-year-old was actually forced out of the rally due to a clash within the selection. According to the British daily, the defender with 4 selections at the Three Lions would have been torn with Steve Holland, coach Gareth Southgate’s longtime assistant.
White and Holland are said to have had a tense exchange of blows “after the defender showed up at a team briefing ahead of the game against the USA with no vital data about his personal statistics, nor any information about England’s opponents,” the English explained tabloid . “White was also unhappy with England’s Al Wakrah training base and failed to make friends with his team-mates,” adds the Daily Star of the Arsenal right-back, who missed out on England’s first three games and went 16 just before the Round of 16 the 2022 World Cup against Senegal (3-0 win for the English).