{"id":536335,"date":"2026-07-11T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/536335\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:54:18","slug":"zlatan-ibrahimovic-blasts-overrated-senne-lammens-and-blames-decision-to-bring-on-man-utd-goalkeeper-for-belgiums-world-cup-exit-against-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/536335\/","title":{"rendered":"Zlatan Ibrahimovic blasts &#8216;overrated&#8217; Senne Lammens and blames decision to bring on Man Utd goalkeeper for Belgium&#8217;s World Cup exit against Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serving as an expert pundit for the television network Fox Sports throughout the tournament, Ibrahimovic openly condemned Garcia\u2019s radical decision to introduce 24-year-old Lammens in place of Courtois with 19 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The former AC Milan forward was left utterly bewildered as to why the Red Devils&#8217; coaching staff favoured the United shot-stopper over Penders, who remained rooted to the bench throughout the World Cup after spending the season on loan at Strasbourg. Ibrahimovic expressed his dissatisfaction with the manager&#8217;s decision after the match: &#8220;I hold the national coach responsible for this defeat. It&#8217;s a decision that cost Belgium the match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also questioned the basis of Garcia&#8217;s player selection: &#8220;Why replace Courtois with Senne Lammens from Manchester United, while Mike Penders remains on the bench? Is it because Lammens plays for Manchester United and Penders for Strasbourg? That&#8217;s not how you select a goalkeeper for a national team. Especially when you see what happens next.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serving as an expert pundit for the television network Fox Sports throughout the tournament, Ibrahimovic openly condemned Garcia\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15311,85,46,3157,2619,155209,2727,244451,105,6866,80651],"class_list":["post-536335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-belgium","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-s-lammens","tag-spain","tag-spain-vs-belgium","tag-sports","tag-world-cup","tag-z-ibrahimovic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}