📺 Bastoni pulls Wirtz, is it a Champions League penalty? VAR says no ❌ | OneFootball

At San Siro, the match between Inter and Liverpool was decided by an incident that occurred in the 85th minute.

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The referee of the match - the German Felix Zwayer - after reviewing the monitor, penalized Alessandro Bastoni for holding Florian Wirtz with a penalty kick. The protests from the Nerazzurri were fierce, both at the moment of the whistle and at the end of the match, with Chivu and Kolarov irritated towards the referee.

🙄 Bastoni-Wirtz, what happened

In the 85th minute, in Inter's area, Bastoni held Wirtz by the shirt during the play: the contact was not obvious, but the hold was there nonetheless. Initially, the referee let it go, but then he was called by the VAR, went to the monitor, and after reviewing, Felix Zwayer awarded a penalty kick to Liverpool, which Szoboszlai converted.

📺 For the replay, the penalty shouldn't have been given

The comments at the Sky Sport table were all clear in the post-match: the penalty was generous, with Fabio Capello shouting simulation. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, the error was made in the VAR room: "The gesture was not repeated and not overwhelming. The call and the awarded penalty were excessive". 

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