{"id":37876,"date":"2025-09-22T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rashford-benched-for-being-late-flick-punishes-the-barca-striker\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:50:16","slug":"rashford-benched-for-being-late-flick-punishes-the-barca-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/rashford-benched-for-being-late-flick-punishes-the-barca-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashford benched for being late: Flick punishes the Bar\u00e7a striker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rashford, punished for being late to meeting with Barca<\/h2>\n\n\nForward Marcus Rashford was benched in the Barcelona vs. Getafe match due to being late for a team meeting. A source confirmed to Alofoke Deportes that the English player arrived two minutes late for the call-up.\n\nRashford, who was expected to start after his outstanding performance with two goals in the middle of the week in the Champions League, was ultimately not included in the starting eleven.\n\nThe call for the Getafe match was scheduled for 9:30 a.m., followed by an activation session at 11 a.m. Rashford, according to the source, showed up at 9:32 a.m.\n\nCoach Hansi Flick applied an internal rule that prevented the English striker from starting the match. Instead, Raphinha, Ferran Torres, and Robert Lewandowski led the attack.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0922%2Fr1549311_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Marcus Rashford came off the bench and had a good performance in the second half.<\/em>\n\nFlick maintains a zero-tolerance policy towards tardiness, and it is common for players to be excluded from the team for being late to training sessions or meetings.\n\nRaphinha was a substitute in the match against Valencia for the same reason, arriving late to the activation session the previous Sunday.\n\nOther players like Jules Kound\u00e9 and I\u00f1aki Pe\u00f1a have also been sanctioned for breaking Flick&#8217;s rules in the past.\n\nRashford came on at halftime and had a standout performance in the second half, assisting the third goal in the 3-0 victory, following Torres&#8217; brace in the first half.\n\nThe player is starting to adapt to Bar\u00e7a after arriving from Manchester United on loan for a season.\n\nAfter not having registered any goal contributions in his first four matches, he has added two goals and two assists in his last three appearances.\n\nBar\u00e7a returns to action on Thursday, when they visit Real Oviedo, looking to maintain their undefeated start to the season in LaLiga.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashford, punished for being late to meeting with Barca Forward Marcus Rashford was benched in the Barcelona vs. Getafe match due to being late for a team meeting. A source confirmed to Alofoke Deportes that the English player arrived two minutes late for the call-up. Rashford, who was expected to start after his outstanding performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,9043,6691,9068],"class_list":{"0":"post-37876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-barcelona","8":"tag-getafe","9":"tag-rashford","10":"tag-tardiness"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}