Fuss over disallowed goal – “No reason to blow the whistle here”

Shooting festival in the Champions League

Fuss over disallowed Bayern goal: “No reason to blow the whistle here”

At the shooting festival over Shakhtar Donetsk, a goal from FC Bayern was disallowed. After the final whistle there was great surprise.

In the Champions League, FC Bayern celebrated a confident 5-1 win against Shakhtar Donetsk – and in the meantime celebrated an irregular goal. Because Jamal Musiala scored after a corner kick from Joshua Kimmich into the Donetsk goal (66th minute) to make it 3-1. However, referee Halil Umut overturned the goal.

The reason for his decision was substitute Mathys Tel, who is said to have blocked the view of the opposing goalkeeper Dmytro Riznyk. The Frenchman was apparently standing too close and as a result blocked the goalkeeper’s view. Musiala’s goal was canceled.

Referee expert Lutz Wagner was critical of the disallowance of the goal: “far too little” had happened for that. “Of course there is minimal contact with the goalkeeper, but neither holding nor pushing,” Wagner explained the scene from his perspective on Amazon Prime Video after the end of the game. For him, it was “not enough to punish a violation of the rules.”

Wagner, who served as a referee from 1991 to 2010, would have made a different decision: “From my side, a clear goal for Bayern and no reason for the referee to blow the whistle here. That was definitely not enough.” TV expert and former professional Christoph Kramer encouraged him: “For me, that’s a regular goal.”

However, Musiala had reason to celebrate a few minutes later: in the 87th minute he got the ball in the Doenzker penalty area, faked a shot and scored the goal to make it 4-1 in the top left corner. Bayern won 5-1 in the end and will now face Feyenoord Rotterdam and Slovan Bratislava in the league phase of the Champions League.