Adrien Rabiot of France complained about the MetLife pitch after his team defeated Senegal, 3-1, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pitch… I don\u2019t even know if you can call it that. It felt more like an artificial surface – quite hard and quite rigid,\u201d Rabiot said.<\/p>\n
Vinicius Junior, a member of the Brazilian team, also criticized the surface after a 1-1 draw with Morocco.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the second half, with the heat, the pitch dries out very quickly. The game becomes very sluggish and we can\u2019t get into our rhythm,\u201d Vinicius said.<\/p>\n
The stadium\u2019s artificial surface has long been a source of complaint for NFL players, who believe the field is dangerous to play on. The stadium, being called New York New Jersey Stadium during the World Cup, is home to both the New York Giants and Jets, and the surface was last replaced before the 2023 season. A Field Turf Core surface, also used by the Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions, Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots, Carolina Panthers, and Cincinnati Bengals, was installed at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cMetLife Stadium had one of the lowest injury rates, not just as a synthetic, but across the league last year,\u201d Jeff Miller said during the fall NFL owner\u2019s meetings. \u201cAs far as how MetLife is playing, it\u2019s playing really well, and it has been for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n
Odell Beckham, back with the Giants, would disagree.<\/p>\n
The grass currently installed at MetLife Stadium was grown over 10 months at Carolina Green Turf Farm in North Carolina. It was trucked to East Rutherford, N.J. shortly before the tournament began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrien Rabiot of France complained about the MetLife pitch after his team defeated Senegal, 3-1, on Tuesday. \u201cThe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[3267,349,99],"class_list":["post-713451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-giants-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713451","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=713451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}