The unusual missed penalty in the Champions League that was not seen on TV and the referee’s terrible explanation that outraged Bayern

The note might begin with a phrase: “Even the rich cry.” On an epic day of Champions Leaguewith two great matches and a shower of goals, a separate paragraph should be dedicated to the stupid refereeing in conjunction with the VARwhich if it happened at other latitudes would be a scandal of proportions.

He was in the duel in the middle Arsenal AND Bayern Monaco, played in London, for the first leg of the quarter-finals of Europe’s most prestigious club competition. The English ended up drawing 2-2 at home against the Germans, who won for a good part of the match and ended up doing business in a draw, leaving everything open for a rematch, on Wednesday 17th on German soil.

The winner of this key will face the one who wins the duel between real Madrid AND Manchester Citywho at the same time played another great match, full of alternatives and with a very changeable procedure, which ended 3-3 in the Spanish capital.

However, the party in the British capital had a controversy that TV did not record but who arrived in the mixed zone after the match when the Bayern players faced each other on the microphones, and who became visible thanks to social media, always attentive to this type of detail.

It was a very clear penalty for the Munich team that the referee decided not to take and the VAR did not deem it worthy of a review. The Spanish archer Davide Rayaof Arsenal, scored with a pass wide to the centre-back Gabriele Magalhaeswithout imagining that the Brazilian defender would grab the ball with his hand to place it in the six-yard box and execute it himself.

At that moment the referee ignored the blooper, while some players of the German team, including the scorer, Harry Kane, they feigned a weak protest, which ended in nothing. The match continued and Arsenal then reached the 2-2 draw, so the manager Thomas Tuchel He did not hesitate to highlight that action as decisive for the result.

The action was reminiscent of the one that took place in Argentine football just over a year ago, when Colon visited Independent and the defender Paolo Goltz He made the same mistake as his colleague Gabriel. That night VAR had the task of calling the referee Nicola Lamolinawho did justice and awarded a penalty to Rojo.

What warmed the hearts in London was the referee’s explanation Glenn Nyberg, almost amateur. This was revealed by Tuchel himself, who in the mixed zone explained what the Swede’s reasoning was when the Bayern players complained to him because he hadn’t taken the penalty.

“I understand that it was a really crazy situation: they lowered the ball, he blew the whistle and the defender took the ball with his hands”, began the coach, champion with Chelsea in 2021. And he added, still annoyed: “What really makes us angry is the explanation he gave on the pitch. He told our players that it was a “childish mistake” and that he wouldn’t sanction something like this in the Champions League quarter-finals.

“It’s a horrible, horrible explanation. Childish mistake, adult mistake, whatever, we feel angry because it was a huge decision against us,” concluded the German, who was injured. A gigantic controversy, in a tournament where not everything is perfect.