This cut may have cost them the Champions League final. The Bayern Munich players are rightfully taking out their anger on the Polish referee Szymon Marciniak, who stopped the game just before the equalizing goal due to an alleged offside in the semi-final rematch with Real Madrid. At the same time, according to the rules, he was supposed to let the action finish and then review everything on video.
Bayern players were angry with referee Szymon Marciniak
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The bitter aftertaste remained elimination from the Champions League. Bayern footballers were close to advancing to the finals of the millionaire competition. At the Santiago Bernabéu, they led until the 88th minute, but then Josela turned the game around with two goals and sent Real Madrid to Wembley. There, the Spanish giant will face another German club, Borussia Dortmund.
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At the same time, everything could have been different. In the 13th minute, Munich leveled the score at 2:2, but Matthijs de Ligt’s goal shot was preceded by referee Marciniak’s whistle. He mistakenly whistled for a questionable offside before the action was over.
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“I find it unbelievable, I don’t understand why he didn’t let the game continue. Then he apologized himself,” Bayern defender De Ligt did not understand in an interview with DAZN. “It’s sad that it ends this way.”
Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel had tears in his eyes as he answered questions in a televised interview. “We are all extremely disappointed. They left us everything on the field,” he muttered.
Ballack was speechless
He did not accept the referee’s apology for the mistake before the equalizing goal. “Catastrophe. It’s an absolute disaster,” he was angry at the experienced Pole, who with his compatriots he also directed the final of the World Cup in Qatar. “This is no longer borderline, this is intentional. It feels like a betrayal.”
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DAZN television expert and former German international Michael Ballack had similar feelings. “Brutal, at times I was speechless. It’s really hard. Real’s victory is not undeserved, but very controversial,” he was angry at the referee. “I think they made a clear mistake and thus influenced the match in favor of Real,” said the former midfielder, who played for Bayern for four seasons.
“Ultimately, it doesn’t matter who makes the mistake. The referee controls the game. It was clearly a bad decision. Today we have VAR, you think it will be fairer. But here you see that mistakes still happen,” he added disappointedly.
Bayern failed to win a doubleheader against Real Madrid for the fourth time in a row and lost their last chance to win a trophy this season. Thus, there will be no repeat of the final from 2013, when Munich defeated Dortmund in the final also at Wembley.
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