After touchline outburst: fine for Karim Adeyemi | OneFootball

Overall, the joy at Borussia Dortmund over the 2-0 victory to close out the year against Borussia Mönchengladbach outweighed everything else. However, it was not entirely unclouded, as Karim Adeyemi once again caused issues with his misconduct following his substitution. This action will have consequences, as sporting director Sebastian Kehl immediately announced.

After Adeyemi had already drawn negative attention in a similar manner during the match in October against 1. FC Köln (1-0), the national player first expressed his frustration on the bench after being substituted in the 60th minute and then wanted to head to the locker room early, before Kehl intervened: “I told him: He’s not going to the locker room, he’s going to sit there,” explained the sporting director on “Sky,” while also supporting coach Niko Kovac’s decision: “Honestly, the substitution was totally justified, Karim did not have a good game.”

Kehl announces punishment

Kovac himself even reported after the match that he had already considered making the change earlier, but had consciously decided against it: “I could have made the substitution at halftime, but I didn’t want to. I wanted to give him another chance,” said the BVB coach, who ultimately took the attacker off the field, not least because of some skirmishes Adeyemi had with his opponents.

Because such incidents have already repeatedly caused distractions in recent weeks and have also been discussed internally, there will now be financial consequences for Adeyemi: “We will have to talk about the incident, and he will receive a fine for it. We have discussed this topic very intensively with the team in recent weeks. I do not want to see that reaction, the coach does not want to see it, nobody wants to see it.”

Kehl also made it clear how players should react to substitutions or being left out: “If a player is dissatisfied, he can express it in the locker room or show his commitment at training the next day.”

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