😲 Wirtz in the spotlight again: Inter stars fuming after "scandal" | OneFootball

At Inter, they're really fuming after the narrow 0:1 loss to Liverpool! Once again, Florian Wirtz is at the center of attention – albeit rather unwillingly.

The DFB star drew the controversial penalty in the final minutes that decided the game, causing quite a stir. After a slight tug from Alessandro Bastoni, Wirtz admittedly fell somewhat theatrically.

Referee Felix Zwayer initially waved it off, but then the VAR called him to the screen. The result: Penalty!

"A scandal!" ranted legendary coach and TV expert Fabio Capello afterwards on 'Sky'. He added: "It's a disgrace to award such a penalty. He lets himself fall, it's a dive."

And the mood was also boiling over in the Italian players' camp. Piotr Zielinski said: "If we start calling such fouls, then from now on we'll only have penalties." Former BVB star Henrikh Mkhitaryan even spoke of a "phantom penalty," and Manuel Akanji, also with years at BVB, called the scene "one of the weakest penalties I've ever seen."

So, both Wirtz and Zwayer, two Germans, had to take quite a bit of verbal beating!

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