The video refereeing concedes to both Chelsea after observing the bad clearance of the Atleti central: the ’18’ of the Blues was not offside.
¿Mario Hermoso enables Olivier Giroud on Chelsea’s first goal? That is the question that many fans have asked themselves after seeing the 0-1 of the English against the Atlético de Madrid in Bucharest, where the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League.
About 68 minutes into the game, a Chilean from the French international put the 0-1 in the light. However, the lineman raised his arm and canceled Giroud’s offside action.
A guy who only knows how to score goals.
The VAR validated Giroud’s goal. # LaCasadelFútbol pic.twitter.com/0duANf9suj– Football in Movistar + (@MovistarFutbol) February 23, 2021
When the athletics began to breathe easy because the goal was not valid, the VAR arrived to change the initial decision. Play was stopped for video refereeing to review a possible offside, and Chelsea’s goal was finally declared.
The actions were stopped for several minutes because Giroud’s position was advanced, and in principle it was whistled offside, but the ball had reached the French after Mario Hermoso played it, which immediately enabled the French tip, whose definition was spectacular.
Here the sequence: it is clear that the ball comes from Mario Hermoso. There is no offside in Giroud’s goal pic.twitter.com/FSLo5WLmjr
– Manu Heredia (@ ManuHeredia21) February 23, 2021
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