Thomas Tuchel was livid with a “horrible, horrible” determination to not award Bayern Munich a second penalty of their entertaining 2-2 draw with Arsenal within the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie.
The Bavarian giants, nearly sure to give up their Bundesliga crown to Bayer Leverkusen, earned a creditable attract north London following an detached interval of kind, courtesy of targets from Serge Gnabry and Arsenal’s arch-nemesis Harry Kane, who scored from the penalty spot.
Issues may have been even higher for Bayern had been it not for a controversial determination from referee Glenn Nyberg, who didn’t penalise Gabriel for selecting up the ball after goalkeeper David Raya had seemingly taken a goal-kick by passing the ball to him.
Bayern’s gamers had been advised a penalty couldn’t be awarded for a “child’s mistake” – an evidence that left Tuchel dumbfounded in his post-match interview.
“For me, for all of us, he made an enormous mistake not giving the handball penalty,” Tuchel raged. “I do know it’s a loopy scenario however they put the ball down, he whistles, he offers the ball and the defender takes the ball in his hand.
“What makes us actually indignant is the reason on the sector. He advised our gamers that it’s a ‘child’s mistake’ and he won’t give a penalty like this in a quarter-final. It is a horrible, horrible clarification. He’s judging handballs. Child’s mistake, grownup’s mistake. No matter. We really feel indignant as a result of it’s a large determination towards us.”
Nyberg was additionally within the highlight late within the sport as Bukayo Saka clashed with Manuel Neuer in Bayern’s penalty space. This time the choice went within the German facet’s favour, with the England winger, who opened the scoring on the night time, deemed to have initiated the contact by dangling his proper leg out in direction of Neuer.
Saka’s Arsenal teammate, Leandro Trossard, mentioned after the sport that it “seemed like a penalty to me, it seemed like clear contact”, whereas Mikel Arteta remained impartial in his post-match interview, remarking: “I have never seen it. The choice is made, we can’t change that. We now have to concentrate on different features we will management and that we may’ve performed a lot better tonight.
“I used to be already trying on the different objective [when Saka first reacted], as a result of he was down within the field and we had 10 males, the sport had not completed – I used to be extra nervous about that than his response!”
