The French team can thank the Var well. Because without the arbitration-video, the Blues would have been left for an immense disillusionment on the lawn of the Parc des Princes on Tuesday against Iceland. First of all because the referee of the meeting, the Portuguese Antonio Nobre, had found nothing to complain about when Marcus Thuram collapsed in the surface in the last minutes of the first period.
The fault of Mikael Anderson on the Milanese striker was however obvious in view of the images and the Portuguese referee logically revised his judgment. And at the end of the match, it was once again thanks to the video that the Blues escaped an equalization of the Icelanders. Andri Gudjohnsen thought he had doubled the bet but that was without counting on a jersey draw on Ibrahima Konaté, Antonio Nobre finally refusing the goal. A badly experienced decision by the Icelandic camp.
“I didn't think there was something wrong, the referee found something I don't really understand. The defenders and the attackers shoot themselves and push themselves constantly, it is so light. I'm going to see that again, but maybe I won't do it so as not to get angry. “ The Blackburn Rovers striker said afterwards.
Iceland victim of a flight?
And the misunderstanding of the Icelandic striker was divided by the middle of Cologne, Isak Bergmann Johannesson. “We were looking at it in the locker room, we laughed for half a second, they mutually hung. It's ridiculous, it steals a point from us “he launched, adding: “I am incredibly proud of the team, we deserved to take points. »»
Arnar Gunnlaugsson, the Icelandic coach, was much more measured. “On the refused goal, I think there is a little faulthe admitted. My attacker slightly draws the jersey of Ibrahima Konaté. But you have to defend your point of view. I had to tell the referee that it was light, and then Konaté is a heavyweight compared to Gudjohnsen. So if you zoom in and see the image in slow motion, you will always find something. Maybe the referee was right. Maybe I say. »»
