{"id":13808,"date":"2022-04-01T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/04\/01\/footage-reveals-jack-grealishs-efforts-to-prevent-serge-aurier-from-being-sent-off-vs-england\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:01:59","slug":"footage-reveals-jack-grealishs-efforts-to-prevent-serge-aurier-from-being-sent-off-vs-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/04\/01\/footage-reveals-jack-grealishs-efforts-to-prevent-serge-aurier-from-being-sent-off-vs-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Footage reveals Jack Grealish\u2019s efforts to prevent Serge Aurier from being sent off vs England"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Footage showcasing the selfless efforts of England and Manchester City star Jack Grealish during the former\u2019s meeting with Cote d\u2019Ivoire earlier this week has begun to turn heads across social media on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The clip in question highlights ongoings late in the first-half at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>This came as, bizarrely, despite the clash having come in the form of a friendly, Ivory Coast defender Serge Aurier was sent for an early bath, owing to two yellow cards picked up inside 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The former Tottenham star, in turn, was quick to plead his case, urging referee Erik Lambrechts to reconsider his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Aurier, though, was not the only one keen to see Lambrechts take into consideration the friendly nature of the fixture, with the aforementioned Grealish, of course lining out on the opposing side, having too been quick to make his feelings known.<\/p>\n<p>As showcased in the footage below, the Manchester City attacker could be seen mouthing \u2018ref, it\u2019s a friendly\u2019, evidently of the opinion that Aurier\u2019s dismissal would dispel any remaining competitiveness from the clash:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cRef it\u2019s a friendly\u201d \u2013 Jack Grealish\u2019s reaction to Serge Aurier\u2019s red card <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AoZWRyXccC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/AoZWRyXccC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The72 \u2013 We Love the #EFL (@_The72) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_The72\/status\/1509826433551679489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Watkins amongst the goals<\/h2>\n<p>In the end, such concerns, of course, proved well founded on Grealish\u2019s part.<\/p>\n<p>This came as England went on to add a further two goals to Ollie Watkins\u2019 effort which had already put Gareth Southgate\u2019s men 1-0 up prior to Aurier being sent off.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ollie Watkins\u2019 second <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThreeLions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ThreeLions<\/a> goal. ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UXBP1T8LyZ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/UXBP1T8LyZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVFCOfficial\/status\/1508891019001090053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Raheem Sterling was next on target on the stroke of the interval, before Tyrone Mings added some gloss to the scoreline late on, with a Three Lions third:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tyrone Mings gets on the scoresheet! ?<\/p>\n<p>England register a 3-0 victory over the Ivory Coast ???????<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/36Le3d3Cdp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/36Le3d3Cdp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1508909469031411712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/paul-scholes-tottenham-more-all-the-best-football-related-april-fools-day-pranks-this-year\/\">Paul Scholes, Tottenham &amp; more: All the best football-related April Fools\u2019 Day pranks this year<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/premier-league-mid-season-report-cards-who-has-excelled-and-who-is-hardly-passing-the-grade\/\">Premier League mid-season report cards: Who has excelled, and who is hardly passing the grade?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Footage showcasing the selfless efforts of England and Manchester City star Jack Grealish during the former\u2019s meeting with Cote d\u2019Ivoire earlier this week has begun to turn heads across social media on Friday. The clip in question highlights ongoings late in the first-half at Wembley Stadium. This came as, bizarrely, despite the clash having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-13808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}