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Nations League, Spaniards furious with the Var: “The biggest mistake since it was invented”

The cup goes to France, the controversies cross the Pyrenees and fly to Spain. The Nations League final was decided by Kylian Mbappé with the final 2-1 goal ten minutes from the end, embellished by the splendid double step with which he seated the opposing goalkeeper, Unai Simon. A few moments before, the crime: on the passage of the Milan player Theo Hernandez, the still image nails the PSG star evidently ahead of all the Spanish defenders. The English referee Anthony Taylor, however, validates the goal and the compatriot on the monitor, Stuart Attwell, confirms the decision. To heal Mbappé’s position the touch of the Spaniard Eric Garcia, who tried to intercept Theo’s pass with a slip. The top referees confirm: the play is deliberate, the defender was far from Mbappé, who therefore did not interfere. Taylor and Attwell did well.

Spain 1-2 France, Benzema and Mbappé give the Nations League to the Bleus

by Emanuele Gamba

10 October 2021

Busquets: “It wasn’t a play, but a simple slip”

The Spanish captain Sergio Busquets does not think so on the pitch, in the heat of the moment: “The referee – he explains – told us that Eric Garcia’s was a play. But it doesn’t make any sense: for it to be such you have to try, in fact, to play the ball. He, on the other hand, just wanted to touch the ball so as not to get it to Mbappé, as any defender would have done. It is a great regret – continued the Barcelona midfielder – because we did everything to not lose, but two inventions of their champions were enough to knock us out “.

The report cards of Spain-France: Busquets dominating, Benzema brilliant

by Matteo Pinci

10 October 2021

Spanish press unleashed

The tones in the country’s media are much brighter. Sports world, close to Barcelona and therefore to coach Luis Enrique – who played in the Catalan club for eight years and coached him for three seasons, taking him to the Triplet of 2015 – he openly writes: “France ahead with scandal”. “Mbappé scored offside”, we read on Sport. Unleashed Eduardo Garcia, who leads “Radioestadio” on the hugely popular Zero Wave: “That that goal has not been canceled is one of the biggest embarrassments of the Var, indeed it is the most colossal mistake since the assistant monitor was established. It is an offside as a linesman, not by Var”. In reverse As he shows himself more balanced. Title: “Por qué no es fuera de juego de Mbappé in el 1-2?” and asks a great former Spanish referee, Eduardo Iturralde, 54, who explains: “In my day it would have been a clear offside, but the rules have changed, the French striker does not actually interfere, the decision is correct”.

Referee Taylor, who validated Mbappé’s goal (afp)

The allusion of “Marca”

Finally, the choice of Mark, the Spanish sports newspaper closest to Real Madrid. Which does not dedicate the main title of its site to the disputed action. But he applauds the authors of the opponents’ two goals: “Benzema y Mbappé son de alta sociedad”. As it happens, Benzema – author of a splendid shot around – is the captain of Real. And Mbappé wants to leave Paris and PSG to play alongside him as soon as possible, at the Santiago Bernabeu.

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