A long -awaited encounter between brothers Jude and Jobe Bellingham will have to wait, where the latter is suspended for Real Madrid's Club World Cup quarterfinals collision against Borussia Dortmund.
The prospect of a quarter-final meeting was a subplot on the way to the last-16, with the Bellingham brothers both in action for their respective parties.
Jude helped Real Madrid to achieve a 1-0 win over Juventus in Miami's Hard Rock Stadium.
Hours later Jobe was part of the Dortmund team that achieved a 2-1 victory on the Mexican side Monterrey.
The 19-year-old, however, was left to take on an unnecessary challenge in the first half of the game, so that he was suspended for the quarterfinals.
Bellingham was booked for a tackle on Monterrey's Nelson Deossa on the wing, despite the fact that Dortmund led 2-0 at the time by the early brace of Serhou Guirassy.
With Bellingham booked in the group stage against Ulsan HD, Dortmund's Summer Towning will now serve a one game ban according to the rules of the World Cup in the club.
Dortmund -Baas Niko Kovac revealed that Bellingham was 'very disappointed' post match about missing a confrontation against his brother.
Kovac added that Bellingham was surprised to be suspended after two yellow cards in four games, with bookings that were only swept after the last 16.
“I think we all saw that he was very disappointed,” said Kovac.
“I think he didn't know exactly that the second yellow card is a suspension during the break. He was a bit surprised.
'He is young, his brother is also young, so I am convinced that they will face each other, perhaps next season in the Champions League and then the future. The future is for them.
'The club world would be fun, but not now. Someone else has to play for him, but it's also ok. '
Bellingham was picked up in the 55th minute of the last 16 match in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where Kovac admitted that the replacement was to prevent the summer signature of £ 32 million.
“I didn't replace it because of his performance,” Kovac added.
“I changed because he had a yellow card in this game, and you saw that we had some very intensive duels, and I didn't want someone to be booked twice.”
The ban of Bellingham comes at a time when the behavior on the pitch of his brother Jude has come under the spotlight.
England -Baas Thomas Tuchel admitted that his mother finds Bellingham's attitude 'repellent', with the comments after the friendly loss of England for Senegal last month.
Bellingham had chased the fourth official and started a water cooler after his late goal had been rejected against Senegal.
In an extraordinary interview, Tuchel then revealed that his behavior can intimidate teammates because of his over-aggressive way and has a negative impact on the team.
Bellingham's attitude towards teammates was also questioned in the euros of last summer.
He also received a suspension of two matches for cursing with a referee in a 1-1 Laliga-equal game with Osasuna in February.
He was dismissed by referee Jose Luis Munuera Montero for dirty and offensive language, but the Englishman was adequate that he had not been offensive to the referee, who accused him of the midfielder to tell him: 'F *** You'.
The Bellingham report was that he had said: 'F *** off', but that these words were aimed at frustration, rather than at the competition officer.
The former Borussia Dortmund player was also caught cursing with the referee during the 3-1 defeat of Madrid by AC Milan in the Champions League in November.