The controversial rule that gave validity to Mbappé's goal: "Whoever put this law has not played football"

There was no one behind Spain who did not think that the VAR would end up making Mbappé smile.

That technology would support the conviction that the French tip was ahead of the game.

Not even Eric García, who could not stop the striker, seemed to enable him with his shoulder.

They all thought that sending Theo would have no future.

But

Calmly awaiting the verdict, he pointed to the center of the field and France, who had once again found themselves on the edge of the precipice, ended up sealing a comeback that was worth a title. A controversial decision justified by a strange rule. Eric's clearance attempt, who got to touch the ball, ended up enabling the French striker. A difficult rule to understand, but present in the regulation. An epigraph that ends up favoring the offender. That is why Spain was left without a crown.

"A pity, we have made merits not to lose. It seemed to us from the inside that the second goal was offside. But we have no choice but to continue and congratulate the champions. We have one more step to win titles and that is ours objective ", admitted Sergio Busquets. According to the captain, the British referee validated the goal because

touched the ball in his attempt to clear. «Mbappé was offside, but the referee has said that Eric is doing to play the ball and that the offside is erased. They don't explain that to us, you have to want to play the ball and Eric just wants to cut, he doesn't fail in control », concluded the Spanish captain, who would be named MVP of the match, minutes after losing the title.

Neither did Eric García himself understand anything, whose clearance attempt ended up enabling Mbappé, to the general disbelief.

"They throw the ball behind my back and I shoot myself, I touch it with the cue and Mbappé is offside. The referee tells me that since I touch it with the cue I intend to play the ball, he tells me that I should move away That this is the rule. It is a play that is clearly offside in which a defender can never move away from there in his life. "

Had he stayed still and had not tried to clear the ball, it would have been offside.

Luis Enrique, however, remained in his line of not talking about the referees: "I'm not going to talk about anything that I can't control. From the bench, he seemed offside."

And that from

left boot

, from that 47 that has become one of the most precious gloves in Spanish football, a short-lived roar of enthusiasm was born from the Spanish fans in Milan.

A superb cross shot with which he scored his sixth goal in 21 games for Spain.

With that same shoe he gave two goals to F

, on the way to the final against France.

He could also have forced extra time with that same boot.

"All of us who play football know what is offside. The one who has put this law is because he has not played football and does not know what there is. It is something that should be changed, but it is not our decision," explained the playmaker on the controversial play.

"We can't go back"

Because when Mikel was still savoring his target, Benzema extinguished the laughter with a shoe to the squad that Unai Simón guessed, but did not manage to scare away in time. Before Oyarzabal's blow, Theo Hernández had already made the Spanish goalkeeper's crossbar tremble. Minutes later, he would be the protagonist of the pass that triggered the controversial play, the thorny decision. "Each referee interprets as he wants and in this case in their favor. We cannot go back,"

, puzzled

. As much as Azpilicueta, the Chelsea captain: "I don't understand it. The referee is there to decide. What I invite you to do is see him on the monitor. The offside is clear, but he argues that Eric has a chance to play. He does not make the decision,the VAR decides and that is hard for me to understand ".

Spain once again sank the knee against France in a final.

Just like that afternoon at the Parc des Princes in 1984. This time, a controversial decision in the League of Nations final pushed him out of the way at San Siro.

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