“Robbed Ukraine”, “Italian Mafia”, “The dream of Ceferin has come true”. These are just some of the foreign media headlines that have not spared strong criticism of theSpanish referee Gil Manzanoguilty of not having whistled, in full injury time, the penalty foul by Cristante are Mudryk which would have allowed the national team to Rebrov to qualify directly to Euro 2024, condemning the Azzurri to the specter of the play-offs.
Euro 2024, Italy almost certainly in the fourth pot in the group draw Jacopo Manfredi 21 November 2023
Foul by Cristante on Mudryk: UEFA in the crosshairs
If the Ukraine coach Rebrov, as a former footballer who was the twin of Shevchenko’s goal at the time of Dynamo Kiev, was quite composed at the end of the match (”there was a penalty, but the VAR did not deem it appropriate to call the referee back to video”), the next day the international media went down hard. In Ukraine above all they remember the words pronounced last October by the president of UEFA, Ceferin, who had defined the presence of our national team at the next European competition in Germany as ”too important” and a ”disaster” in the event of failure to qualify. For this reason, from the stands of the BayArena in Leverkusen, the yellow and blue fans displayed a banner with the words ‘Uefa Mafia’ before Gil Manzano’s mistake. ”Ceferin’s dream has come true,” urges the online edition of the Ukrainian newspaper Sport.ua.
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Even in England the referee is criticized
The controversy over the missed penalty also reached across the Channel, where at the same time England protested for a dubious penalty awarded to North Macedonia in the match, useless for qualification purposes, which ended 1-1 in Skopje. ”Ukraine robbed’, is the opening of the Daily Star, who adds how Mudryk was “knocked down” by Cristante. More moderate Guardian which underlines how Italy “survived” the penalty not called. Also the Telegraph and the Daily Mail they have no doubts: ”Ukraine is denied a penalty at the last minute”. And the Spaniard Gil Manzano is not spared even at home: his decision is defined as a ”mess”. The die has now been cast: Rebrov’s boys will play everything in the play-offs, while Donnarumma and his teammates enjoy direct access with a huge sigh of relief.
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2023-11-21 12:29:28
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