Football club World Cup: Real against PSG-or Tony alone in New York

Antonio Rüdiger also felt with Jamal Musiala when he noticed the serious injury to the national team colleague. “Come back more, Starboy,” was the message of the 32-year-old, which he sent on social media on the Bayern professional, which was ten years younger.

On Wednesday (9:00 p.m. MESZ/DAZN), Rüdiger and Musiala could also have met in the Metlife stage at the gates of New York – as an opponent. So exactly in the huge football arena, in which you want to be a soccer world champion together on July 19, 2026 with the DFB selection in the final. A nice dream that is very, very far away for Musiala.

Rüdiger to Musiala: “Come back more”

Rüdiger, on the other hand, runs back in East Rutherford four days after the 3: 2 against Borussia Dortmund. In the giant duel with Champions League winner Paris Saint-Germain, who was able to defeat Bayern 2-0 in the quarter-finals.

It was the game in which Musiala broke the left fabric in a bad collision with PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and cut out the ankle. In the meantime he has been operated on.

After the Bavaria and BVB-Aus, Rüdiger is the last German player in the tournament. In other words, Tony alone in New York. In the strength of the strength between Real and PSG, other protagonists are even more in focus. For example, the exciting trainers Xabi Alonso (Real) and Luis Enrique (Paris). Or striker Kylian Mbappé, who meets his ex-club for the first time after moving to Madrid. The relationship is considered poisoned.

Reals defense boss should stop PSG offensive

But it will arrive in front of over 70,000 spectators on Rüdiger. Because Germany’s defense boss must make a significant contribution to the fact that the top-class PSG offensive around Ousmane Dembélé and young star Desiré Doué, who met Bayern, did not beat again.

Rüdiger knows what to expect: “PSG is a really, really unpleasant team. They have shown that they are among the best teams in Europe. It will be a difficult game,” he said. But of course there was an addition: “We are Real Madrid. We are ready for this challenge.”

He too? After all, Rüdiger – as was the case with Musiala after a muscle bundle tear in the thigh – started the club World Cup from an injury. He was even missing in the first game.

Controversy around Rüdiger

At the end of April, he was operated on the left knee due to a partial tear of the outer meniscus. Before that, he had played with pain relievers for a long time. The intervention had been scheduled after Rüdiger had previously (again) negative.

In the Spanish cup final against FC Barcelona (2: 3), he had insulted the referee shortly before the extension has expired and even thrown at an object. The Real professional, replaced a few minutes earlier, saw the red card for the freak.

Rüdiger apologized the day after. He was closed to six games in Spain for his (incorrect) behavior. In his home country, he was also discussed with heated and controversial. Didn’t the DFB also sanction him? Sports director Rudi Völler and national coach Julian Nagelsmann looked away from it. And Rüdiger then missed the Nation’s League final tournament in Germany at the beginning of June because of the knee surgery.

Nagelsmann admonition to “better behavior”

But he is under critical observation. Nagelsmann showed his vice captain the yellow card. “He knows that the limit has been reached. He also knows that this can no longer happen, otherwise it has larger consequences,” said Nagelsmann. And: “I am looking forward to better behavior in the future.”

So far there has been excitement in the USA for the impulsive Rüdiger. After the group game against the Mexican Club CF Pachuca, he accused opponents of Gustavo Cabral to have insulted him racistically.

The 39-year-old Argentinier rejected the accusation: “There was nothing racist. I called him a damn coward, as we say in Argentina. This is all.” The FIFA started. And Rüdiger fights for the final of the club World Cup two weeks later.