Real Madrid managed to reach the final of the Champions League after defeating 2 goals to 1 against Bayern Munich in the second leg of the semi-finals. The match was full of controversy to a fault, especially when in the 12th minute of stoppage time the Polish referee Szymon Mariniak annulled the goal scored by the German club’s defender, Matthijs De Ligt for an advanced position that simply did not exist. This score would have taken the game to overtime, but it did not happen.
The head judge had added 9 minutes due to the changes, protests and the second goal by Joselu for Real Madrid, which had to be validated by the VAR, since one of the assistants had mistakenly marked the offside in said play. Szymon Marciniak once again called the benches’ attention and so he added two more minutes to the 9 already added previously. And with all of Bayern Munich going in search of a heroic goal, an action occurred that left all Munich fans stunned and that will surely be talked about for a long time.
De Ligt totally frustrated and indignant
As a consequence, Matthijs de Ligt had quite strong statements after the game. “The refereeing has been a shame. If it is not clear, you have to let the game play and not charge offside. With Joselu’s goal he allowed the game to play, but with us he paid for it. Is incredible. “I don’t want to say that Real Madrid always has the referees with them, but that made the difference today.”
Eric Choupo-Moting was the one who recovered the ball by stealing it from Vinicius at midfield.. Eric Dier offloaded to Joshua Kimmich, who sent a ball into the area that Ferland Mendy was able to clear, who went ahead of the Moroccan Noussair Mazraoui. Despite this, the ball was left loose in the area, Thomas Müller was able to make a last effort to connect with a header towards Matthijs de Ligt who did not hesitate to kick the ball and achieve the agonizing tie. The play had to be validated because there was no advanced position, since the one who cleared it was Madrid’s French defender and De Ligt does not take position in the play.
The worst could happen and it did.
The biggest mistake of this action was committed by the assistant, who scored offside and did not comply with the stipulations of the regulations regarding delay and this consists of letting the play run until the action comes to an end. Seeing the flag raised, the main referee blew the whistle and immediately stopped the play before the Dutchman kicked the goal and scored the goal. That is why the VAR cannot intervene so that the play is reviewed again.
“A huge mistake,” said Diego Latorre. “Never seen this, that’s what the VAR is for,” added the commentator of the broadcast of the match that finally ended in favor of the merengue club and gave them the ticket to the final of the Champions League.
In this way, Borussia Dortmund will be the rival of the Spanish team in its eighteenth final of the top continental competition on June 1 at Wembley; The Germans will seek to win their second trophy in the top European competition at the club level, while at the White House they will be with the firm mission of winning number 15 in their history.
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