The controversy shows no sign of abating after Germany failed to award a penalty in the 107th minute of yesterday’s Euro 2024 quarter-final match against Spain. According to Bild, German coach Nagelsmann’s assistant, Sandro Wagner, stormed into the dressing room of referee Anthony Taylor after the match, who was in the eye of the storm for not awarding a penalty to the home team following a blatant handball by Cucurella, who blocked a shot on goal by Musiala.
Schweinsteiger’s words.
Also Bastian Schweinsteigera former German football legend, didn’t mince his words: “Someone has to explain this to me,” the 2014 World Cup winner began. “Of course it’s not intentional. But the hand is not attached to the body. My heart bleeds when I see this kind of thing. It’s also true that Toni Kroos could have been shown a second yellow, we were lucky. But we were very unlucky in that scene.”
The fact.
In the second half of extra time a shot from Musiala hit the ball squarely Cucurella’s very large hand in the middle of the area, but the whistle was given for the match, Anthony Taylordid not point to the spot for the penalty. Füllkrug may have been in an offside position, but the images of the semi-automatic offside did not appear on the monitors and the Germans – the newspaper writes PICTURE – they therefore felt “cheated”.