{"id":189160,"date":"2025-09-29T05:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189160\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:40:10","slug":"frustrated-de-bruyne-unhappy-with-napoli-substitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189160\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated De Bruyne unhappy with Napoli substitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alexis-Saelemaekers-Kevin-De-Bruyne-Milan-Napoli.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-918580\" alt=\"MILAN, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 28: Alexis Saelemaekers of AC Milan is challenged by Kevin De Bruyne of Napoli during the Serie A match between AC Milan and SSC Napoli at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on September 28, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images)\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1024px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MILAN, ITALY &#8211; SEPTEMBER 28: Alexis Saelemaekers of AC Milan is challenged by Kevin De Bruyne of Napoli during the Serie A match between AC Milan and SSC Napoli at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on September 28, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Napoli star Kevin De Bruyne<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBSSportsGolazo\/status\/1972400942289952792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> was visibly unhappy<\/a> when he was subbed off in the second half of an away game at Milan on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Former Manchester City star De Bruyne was clearly frustrated when Napoli coach Antonio Conte subbed him off at minute 73 of an away game at Milan, which the Partenopei eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/serie-a-milan-2-1-napoli-pulisic-inspirational\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lost 2-1<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1227\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kevin-De-Bruyne-penalty-Milan-Napoli.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-918591 size-medium\" alt=\"MILAN, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 28: Kevin De Bruyne of Napoli scores a penalty goal during the Serie A match between AC Milan and SSC Napoli at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on September 28, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images)\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1227\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/>MILAN, ITALY \u2013 SEPTEMBER 28: Kevin De Bruyne of Napoli<br \/>scores a penalty goal during the Serie A match between AC Milan and SSC Napoli at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on September 28, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>De Bruyne had scored from the spot some 10 minutes earlier, but Conte still decided to replace him with more than 20 minutes still left to be played at San Siro.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian left the pitch running, not to lose any time, but didn\u2019t shake hands with Conte after the substitution, heading straight to the bench.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cOh boy\u201d \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n<p>The CBS crew react to Kevin De Bruyne\u2019s frustrated reaction to being substituted\u2026 \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/smG8d39nHT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/smG8d39nHT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Sports Golazo \u26bd\ufe0f (@CBSSportsGolazo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSportsGolazo\/status\/1972400942289952792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">September 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tPost navigation&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN, ITALY &#8211; SEPTEMBER 28: Alexis Saelemaekers of AC Milan is challenged by Kevin De Bruyne of Napoli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-189160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}