Barça does not digest. At the edge of the chasm at the break during the return match of their semi-final of the Champions League against Inter, the Blaugrana believed to have won their qualification for the final, on May 31 in Munich, after the goal scored by Raphinha in the last minutes of regulation time.
But that was without counting on the equalization of the Francesco Acerbi veteran in additional time and then on the aim of the victory scored by Davide Prattesi during the extensions. But seen from Catalonia, even more than the incredible resilience of the Insurance, it is the arbitration of Szymon Marciniak and its Var Dutch Var assistants Dennis Higler and Pol Van Boekel who made the difference.
“” I don't want to talk too much about the referee but on each decision at 50/50, it went on their side. We gave everything and happened what happened ”, Thus entrusted Hansi Fick at the end of the meeting, Eric Garcia adding: “I think football was very cruel to us. And then I don't know what's going on in this stadium but I came three times and the three times … it did not turn well for us for reasons outside of us. We know what happened the last time we came. »» A reference to Dennis Higler, who officiated at the Var this Tuesday and had not pointed out a hand of Denzel Dumfries on a strike from Ansu Fati during the Inter-Barça of 2022.
Unsurprisingly, the Barcelona press took over. “Marciniak determined to end the dream of a heroic Barça”, thus asserts Sport, for whom the arbitration of the Pole was simply “Scandalous”. “A terrible performance by the Polish referee and an epic team from the Inter left the Flick -free Flick team, after returning, having fun and having made the 4,000 abutments of the Giuseppe Meazza stadium”, adds the Catalan daily life.
The referee stole the Dream of Barça
For Mundo Deportivo, Szymon Marciniak was clearly on the side of Inter Milan and delivered a shameful performance, which is not surprising in view of “His friendly past with Real Madrid”. “The referee tipped the meeting on the side of the Inter by multiplying arbitration errors, systematically against the Barcelona, and stole the dream of Barça. »»
And the daily life of listing the decisions oriented between the severe penalty granted to Inter Milan for a supposed fault of Pau Cubarsi on Lautaro Martinez, an undistred fault of Dumfries on Gerard Martin on the third goal, the yellow card forgotten after the fault of Henrikh Mkhitaryan on Lamine Yamal at the entrance to the surface or an unpilled hand of Francesco Acerbi in the surface.
