From the correspondent in Dortmund – Even the Danes in their own small way are pissed off. The protest spread around midnight, while the Dortmund sky was still throwing down lightning and buckets of water. Kasper Wheelmancoach with a past and an actor’s face, does not accept the verdict of the eighth of the Germania that forces him to return home. He is not angry with the referee Oliver but with the VAR, or rather with the use that is made of the VAR. Without technology, Denmark would perhaps have beaten the home team. Instead, in three minutes the poor defender Andersen, ex Sampdoria, went from joy to nightmare: a goal disallowed and a penalty awarded.
It’s not football
Wheelman grida: «For me this is no longer football. Canceling a goal by offside simply doesn’t make sense. And the penalty, well, it just can’t be granted. Andersen runs the cross normally, he can’t make his arm disappear. If decisions are changed in this way every time, we no longer understand anything.”. Andersen, with dull eyes in the mixed zone, would also like to erase a surreal evening from his memories: «It hurts to go out like this. I don’t know what to say about Delaney’s offside but I can be very explicit about the penalty. I have not committed any infraction. I didn’t touch it with my arm, it was Raum who threw the ball to me on his arm. An episode of this kind can never be sanctioned with penalty.”
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