Controversial scene in the CL duel
Shouldn’t this Bayern gate have counted at all?
04/16/2025 – 11:39 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
FC Bayern left the Champions League against Inter. The first goal of the Italians in the second leg was one that triggered discussions.
That’s it: FC Bayern has to bury the dream of the Champions League final in their own stadium this season. With 1: 2 and 2: 2, the German record champion against Inter was eliminated in the quarter -finals. The gripping draw in Milan on Wednesday evening offered a lot of drama-and also a controversial referee decision.
At 1-0 for the guest from Munich, Inter gets a corner. Federico Dimarco’s cross ends up on the Arm Lautaro Martínez ‘arm, jumps against the thigh of Joshua Kimmich and back to Martínez, who shoots the ball into the goal.
While the Giuseppe-Mazza stadium trembles, Harry Kane and Thomas Müller complain to referee Slavko Vinčić, among others. They demand that the hit will be withdrawn because the Argentinian had got the ball on his arm.
But the referee team including video assistant (VAR) decided against it. At first glance, an understandable decision, after all, Martínez’s arm is created. Nevertheless, the complaints of the Bayern players were understandable.
Because in the rules of the IFAB (International Football Association, the so -called “rule keepers” of football), the subject of handball says: “There is a crime when a player: (…) has touched the ball with his hand/arm (even if this is accidentally happens).”
Ex-referee Manuel Gräfe therefore saw a wrong decision by the impartial. On the platform X he wrote: “If (the) goal scorer to 1: 1 touched the ball with his hand/arm in front of the shot, the gate would be clearly irregular! Difficult for Vinčić in the crowd, but there is the var!”
Gräfe also added: “For such cases, the rule was introduced a few years ago! Football does not want to (see) such goals! Neither a direct goal decoration by an unintentional hand nor before that, especially since he only gets the ball here in front of his feet and shoots in!”
In fact, the handball rule adapted a few years ago is controversial because it actually ignores how the player touches the ball with her arm.
Bundesliga fans could get a scene from the Darmstadt 98 game against Werder Bremen from last season. At that time, Bremen’s goalkeeper Marcel Zetterer had shot the rushing Darmstadt Tim Skarke. Skarke had kept his arm protective and created in front of his stomach. From there the ball jumped forward, the Darmstadt shot the ball into the goal. Nevertheless, the hit did not count. Darmstadt coach Torsten Lieberknecht judged at the time: “The rule is really stupid.”