Journalist Patrick Guillou has received an apology from the Bayern Munich winger following a clash between the pair last weekend <\/p>\n
Franck Ribery has apologised after he was involved in an altercation with a reporter following Bayern Munich’s Bundesliga loss to Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n
Bayern were beaten 3-2 last Saturday at Signal Iduna Park, despite twice leading through goals scored by former Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski.<\/p>\n
Reports emerged after the game that Ribery had “pushed” and “slapped” journalist Patrick Guillou, who highlighted errors by the former France winger in his appearance on beIN SPORTS.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Bayern\u2019s sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic confirmed an incident occurred, and Ribery has now issued a public apology after meeting Guillou.<\/p>\n “I’ve had an appointment with Patrick Guillou and it was good that he came to Munich,” Ribery said in a video posted on Bayern’s official website.<\/p>\n “We talked together for a long time and about what happened after the match in Dortmund.<\/p>\n “Of course, what I did was wrong. After the match, I was very emotional.<\/p>\n “I said ‘sorry’ to Patrick and his family yesterday. And I hope that we can leave this behind \u2013 that’s why this meeting was important for him and for me.”<\/p>\n Bayern are seven points behind Bundesliga leaders Dortmund following their Klassiker loss, which was sealed by a Paco Alcacer strike.<\/p>\n The defeat increased the pressure on under-fire coach Niko Kovac, who replaced Jupp Heynckes for the 2018-19 season and came under scrutiny in October after a run of four games without a win.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Journalist Patrick Guillou has received an apology from the Bayern Munich winger following a clash between the pair last weekend Franck Ribery has apologised after he was involved in an altercation with a reporter following Bayern Munich’s Bundesliga loss to Borussia Dortmund. Bayern were beaten 3-2 last Saturday at Signal Iduna Park, despite twice leading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n