The friendly match between Germany and France was notably marked in the first half by a foul by Antonio Rüdiger which was not reported by the referee or the VAR. An episode that annoyed more than one.
A few days after winning against Ireland in qualifying for Euro 2024 (2-0), the France team traveled to Dortmund to face Germany. A friendly match which saw the local selection open the scoring through Thomas Müller before the Blues gradually got back into the swing of the game. Until the thirty-seventh minute of play and this obvious push from Antonio Rüdiger in his area, on Randal Kolo Muani. However, no penalty was called. And the observers don’t understand anything about it.
On the chain The Team, at halftime of the match, several journalists expressed their incomprehension at the officials’ decision not to whistle anything. Starting with Didier Roustan. “ But Rüdiger is grotesque. It’s terrible, it’s a tractor. And then put your arms like that… And then it happens… » A comment to which Giovanni Castaldi followed up with a question full of irony. “ Reassure us, there is VAR? It’s incredible. It’s dramatic !“
Tackle by Rudiger and the referee doesn’t give the penalty? We are being robbed #ALLFRA pic.twitter.com/lOH7zBhNUr
— Bisdelëaû🦖 (@Etleau) September 12, 2023
You miss a Mbappé…
The referees therefore decided to let the game continue, so the Blues were still one goal behind when they returned to the locker room. Faced with Germans who were much more solid than they had been in their last three matches, all of which ended in defeat, Didier Deschamps’ men, on the other hand, showed much less good things, particularly offensively. The absence of Kylian Mbappé, on the bench at kick-off, had nothing to do with it.
