This scene brings Tuchel to cook
“First referee who takes a goal back”
11.06.2025 – 05:54 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
England loses 1: 3 against Senegal – and Thomas Tuchel loses the version. After an aberred goal, the coach starts to referee Frappart.
After the final whistle, Tuchel marches angry on the lawn in the City Ground from Nottingham – not for congratulating, but to confront the referee. Although his team had shown too little against Senegal overall, the focus is on a scene from the 84th minute: the supposed 2: 2 of Jude Bellingham.
Levi Colwill bugs the ball to Bellingham – according to referee Stéphanie Frappart with her arm. However, the scene cannot be clearly recognized on the TV pictures. The referee initially gives the hit, the scene then looks at the monitor several times – and takes the goal back. No compensation for England.
Tuchel’s discussion with Frappart Afterwards on the lawn ends abruptly: she listens briefly, then turns around and just goes away. The German remains stunned-and follows up in the TV interview. “I just saw it, it looks more like a shoulder than after my hand. I saw it as a goal that has to be checked,” he said after the scene in the English broadcaster ITV.
Ironically adds Tuchel: “It is the first time that the referee will take a goal back.” And further: “Either it is a mistake, then it has to be withdrawn – or it is not a mistake, then it is a goal.” And further: “Either it is a mistake, then it has to be withdrawn – or it is not a mistake, then it is a goal.”
England’s captain Harry Kane also criticizes the French decision: “If you know the rules, this is not a handball. It brings us back into play and maybe we could have turned it.”