Friday night’s Euro 2024 Group D conflict between France and the Netherlands noticed the competitors’s most controversial refereeing second to this point, with two English officers on the coronary heart of it.
The 2 European heavyweights would find yourself enjoying out what was largely an uninspiring conflict in Leipzig that ended up as the primary goalless European Championship draw since England and Scotland’s clean at Euro 2020.
However there was one key second of controversy when a Dutch objective was chalked off for offside.
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The incident got here within the 69th minute when Xavi Simons lashed the ball into the again of the online from outdoors the field. After a wild celebration, the Dutch gamers noticed the flag was up earlier than a prolonged VAR verify by Stuart Attwell started.
The verify centred round whether or not or not Denzel Dumfries was interfering with goalkeeper Mike Maignan because the ball went previous the pair, with Attwell finally deciding it shouldn’t stand, with the VAR declining to present referee Anthony Taylor the chance to go to the monitor.
The disallowed objective proved to be the massive speaking level of the night time, with BBC pundits Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney and Cesc Fabregas all agreeing that Dumfries was not in Maignan’s approach and that Attwell ought to have let Taylor assess the incident on the pitchside monitor, on the very least.
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“I feel France have been very lucky right here,” Shearer started. “Whenever you see the angle from behind the objective, clearly the goalkeeper due to his physique place, due to the place his legs are and the way huge they’re, however you may see how far Dumfries is away from the keeper, however once we freeze it once more, the goalkeeper can’t dive for that now.
“That physique place he’s in now, the goalkeeper can’t dive and he’s not attending to that ball. And Dumfries is just not affecting him in any respect.”
Rooney agreed, including that the size of the delay additionally left him pissed off.
The Dutch assume they’ve taken the lead however after a prolonged VAR verify from the English officers, the objective is dominated out.❌What did you make of it? #BBCEuros #Euro2024 #NEDFRA pic.twitter.com/spedGxVOjWJune 21, 2024
“I feel it’s a objective,” the previous England and Manchester United striker stated. “Firstly the defenders are blocking his view, after which he truly does make a small try and get the ball however that’s the most effective he can do. There’s no approach that needs to be disallowed for my part. I feel it’s a objective, it’s irritating the period of time it took.”
This view was echoed by Fabregas who added the panel’s third grievance in Attwell not permitting Taylor to revisit the monitor.
“I feel we’ve got to query a bit of bit right here the referee, the VAR,” he stated. “I feel you may possibly have seen it a distinct approach as a result of all the things occurs very very quick, however the VAR ought to have referred to as him as much as watch the display at the very least for him to make the appropriate choice.”
The draw meant that Poland turned the primary workforce to be knocked out of Euro 2024, with France and the Netherlands each sitting on 4 factors in Group D and in a robust place to make the knockout levels.
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