Ivory Coast coach Emerse Faé has said Germany lacked fair play in their World Cup match on Saturday.
"We look to such nations as examples to help us improve, and I was a little disappointed by the lack of fair play shown by this German team," Faé told the post match news conference.
Germany won 2-1 from a stoppage time goal by Deniz Undav but Faé was mainly incensed about an 80th minute incident when Wilfried Singo went down injured.
“You would have expected a bit more fair play from a great nation like Germany when Singo kicked the ball out of play because of an injury,” Faé said.
Singo held his thigh after a duel with Kai Havertz and kicked the ball out of bounds. He then went down in such a way that he was back on the pitch which led to an interruption.
This move made the Germans furious because it denied them a quick throw in as tempers flared.
Faé meanwhile said that "we would have liked them to pass the ball back to us."
Faé also said he had a war of words with German full-back Nathaniel Brown.
“I simply told him to stay humble. It’s true, he played a brilliant game; he’s part of a very, very strong national team. But I don’t think he needs to speak ill of us just because his team are behind, or because the score is 1–1 and he’d like to win,” Faé said.
