“Kimmich throws himself down”
Ancelotti counters Bayern’s angry accusations of wrong decision
May 9, 2024, 12:24 p.m
A turbulent final phase brings Real Madrid into the final of the Champions League, FC Bayern is extremely angry after the final whistle. The Munich team accuse the referee of a serious mistake. Real coach Carlo Ancelotti has no understanding of this.
FC Bayern missed the Champions League final – and are not coping well with it. The excitement lasted well into the night after FC Bayern’s semi-final second leg against Real Madrid. The allegations against referee Szymon Marciniak are serious: he whistled too early for a legal goal in stoppage time.
“The decision is a disaster. Toni’s leg is probably lower than Mazraoui’s. An absolute disaster. When Real Madrid scored their second goal, they let play continue. It would have been the same: the pass goes out to Toni, he keeps it outside “Put the flag into the cross pass and the whistle blows. The game scene has to be played to the end, that’s the rule,” complained head coach Thomas Tuchel.
His counterpart, Carlo Ancelotti, cannot understand the Munich team’s accusations at all. He wasn’t interested in whether it was really offside or not. “The last scene is clear: the referee blows his whistle, the linesman raises the flag and we stop,” said the Italian at the press conference after the 2-1 win against the German record champions when he was asked about the key scene in the game. “This referee whistled the World Cup final, he is a referee at the top level,” said the former Bayern coach, supporting the referee Szymon Marciniak.
In the 13th minute of added time, when Bayern once again put everything into the balance to equalize after losing a 1-0 lead within just a few minutes, the referee blew the whistle too early for what was supposed to be an offside situation . Matthijs de Ligt’s possible legal goal could not be recognized by the video assistant, and the Munich team’s protests were correspondingly large.
But FC Bayern isn’t entitled to such complaints anyway, said Ancelotti, who made a rather strange comparison: “If they complain about that, we’re complaining about Nacho’s goal being disallowed. Because Kimmich throws himself down. There was a push, but both push.” In the 71st minute – depending on the interpretation – Alphonso Davies scored with an unfortunate own goal or Real captain Nacho scored the supposed equalizer, but before that he had pushed Bayern defender Joshua Kimmich to the ground with both hands by the neck. Marciniak immediately took the goal back after looking at the pictures. Ancelotti had a pretty exclusive opinion.