UEFA justifies refusing to award Benzema's goal in the Champions League final

Talk about a shot of striker Karim Benzema's goal in the Champions League final, which Real Madrid was crowned at the expense of Liverpool, and new interpretations emerged from the European Football Association (UEFA) justifying the referees' decision.

Benzema scored a goal for the Royal Club in the first half of the match that took place at the Stade de France in the suburb of Saint-Denis in Paris, but the referee refused to count it after returning to the video assistant technology (VAR).

The referees of the mouse took about 3 minutes to study the shot before making a decision not to count the goal, a decision that sparked a wide discussion at the time because the French striker seemed to receive the ball from Liverpool defender Fabinho, which cancels the offside position in the shot.

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The newspaper "MARCA" quoted information from the European Football Association to justify the decision not to count the goal, and explained that the shot is a controversial case and bears many interpretations, and therefore it took a long time to resolve it.

Touch and play the ball

The referees of the mouse built a decision to reject the goal based on their conviction that Liverpool defender Fabinho touched the ball without intending to pass it, and the newspaper explained that it is sufficient for the striker to touch the ball only to be taken into account when calculating the offside case, while the defender must have touched the ball with the intention of playing it to be counted The ball is to decide on the offside situation.

The video referees considered that Fabinho threw himself to tackle the ball in front of Real Madrid player Fede Valverde, but without the intention of playing it, and only intervened to intercept the possible pass from Valverde towards Benzema.

The newspaper pointed out that estimating the state of play, whether it was touching with the intention of playing the ball or just touching as a result of the ball hitting the player’s foot, is one of the cases that are not always clear, and they are cases that fall into the “grey area” in the language of arbitration, that is, among the cases that are difficult to issue a direct and quick judgment regarding and need to be repeated. Audit before making a decision about it, and this decision often raises controversy because the interpretations may be multiple.

However, this controversy disappeared after Real Madrid's success in scoring another goal through Vinicius Junior in the 59th minute, which gave the royal club the victory, which won the Champions League for the 14th time in its history.