{"id":296250,"date":"2025-11-17T02:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/296250\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T02:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:51:31","slug":"jude-bellingham-storms-off-england-pitch-after-breaking-unwritten-rule-in-albania-disaster-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/296250\/","title":{"rendered":"Jude Bellingham storms off England pitch after breaking unwritten rule in Albania disaster | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jude Bellingham stormed off the pitch after being substituted during England<\/a>\u2019s victory over Albania on Sunday. The Real Madrid<\/a> attacker endured an awful night<\/a> and was replaced by Morgan Rogers with six minutes remaining after picking up a yellow card moments earlier.<\/p>\n

England struggled against Albania<\/a> and were thwarted for much of the clash in Tirana as the visitors aimed to complete a perfect World Cup<\/a> qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n

Thomas Tuchel\u2019s men fluffed a number of chances as Albania held firm for the majority of the match. And the home side even had opportunities to take the lead after carving out a number of chances at the other end.<\/p>\n

But England\u2019s quality eventually shone through, with Harry Kane<\/a> turning the ball in from close range for the opening goal 16 minutes before the end. The Bayern Munich striker then headed home a second with eight minutes remaining after getting on the end of a Marcus Rashford cross.<\/p>\n

Bellingham was guilty of losing possession on a number of occasions during the game and was also lacking composure in front of goal as he blazed a close-range effort high over the bar in the second period.<\/p>\n

He was booked for a late challenge with 10 minutes remaining. And Tuchel then decided he had seen enough as the player was substituted.<\/p>\n

Bellingham appeared to sense that he was about to be taken off and threw his arms up in the air in frustration as he looked over at the sidelines. And the 22-year-old looked far from happy as he eventually left the pitch.<\/p>\n

The No. 10’s departure from the match came after the former Borussia Dortmund ace had broken an unwritten rule by swapping his shirt with an Albania player at half-time.<\/p>\n

And after the contest, England boss Tuchel acknowledged Bellingham\u2019s frustration as he explained: \u201cYeah, he didn\u2019t like it. No one likes it, but that\u2019s how it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cMorgan didn\u2019t like it to be out and didn\u2019t deserve to be out, so it was the decision. Jude was also on a yellow card and [we] made the decision before the second goal. And the decision stands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, former England striker Ian Wright offered his view on Bellingham\u2019s night as he told ITV: \u201cFor Jude Bellingham, with a lot of attention on him at the moment, it\u2019s a tough game.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlbania made it quite tough, so you have to try and do things and you\u2019re going to lose the ball. You have to play how you believe you should be playing. That\u2019s what I like with Jude. He will continue to do that (demand the ball) and that\u2019s what you need. You have to be brave.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Roy Keane<\/a> also defended Bellingham as he insisted: \u201cQuality player come the crunch. It\u2019s about peaking at the right time and these top lads will know when to turn up. And I\u2019d be really surprised if he\u2019s not in that starting XI [at the World Cup] come the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jude Bellingham stormed off the pitch after being substituted during England\u2019s victory over Albania on Sunday. The Real…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[33696,9333,31237,4569,89860,38170,403,99,153412],"class_list":["post-296250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-albania","tag-england","tag-england-football-team","tag-football-section","tag-jude-bellingham","tag-reaction","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296250","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=296250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}