The 2014 world champion shows itself in an insightful and self -critical manner in his podcast. The days after his dismissal were “shit”.
After his turbulent week, Mats Hummels gave an insight into his emotional world at AS Rome. “I went into myself again. I’m afraid that it may actually have been the biggest mistake of my career,” said Hummels in his podcast “Alone is difficult” about his early red card in the round of 16 of the Europa League at Athletic Bilbao.
In his career, he made “about four mistakes on the order”, “which are very stupid, but they often went out well for the teams,” the 36-year-old described.
Mats Hummels talks about a bitter moment
As an example, he cited a goat against Real Madrid in the semi -finals of the Champions League 2013: “But then you just win the game 4: 1, and it does not weigh so badly. So you have kicked out your team on your own.”
Hummels: It looked worse on TV
After his dismissal in Bilbao after ten minutes, the Roma had lost 1: 3 and had left. “It was really terrible,” said the 2014 world champion: “To hang in the cabin and hope the whole game that they would somehow make it.
The days after the game in which he was harshly criticized by the Italian press and apparently also by fans were “shit”. He looked at the scene again and admitted that on TV the whole thing “even worse than it felt. Because it is even more obvious that this passport just doesn’t work.”
However, the back of the association helped him a lot that he had rarely experienced such a good reaction to something like this from a team, “said the defender.
For the red card because of a foul on his own bad pass, Hummel’s understanding, but she described it as a “hard decision”: “In my head it was not a scene for a red one because it was a few meters in our half. I was very surprised that he pulled red. If he only gives yellow, I don’t think the VAR upgrades to red.”