Bayern Munich experienced a shocking loss. The hope of lifting the UEFA Champions League comes crashing down for the Bavarians this year, as they lost on aggregate to Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
In a game marred by controversial calls, it is only fair that the higher-ups lash out at UEFA for the refereeing. If Joao Neves\u2019 handball could be disregarded, but Alphonso Davies\u2019 handball could lead to a free kick for PSG, it raised questions of inexperience. Nuno Mendes handling the ball mid-Bayern attack too was under scrutiny. Granted, there were rules cited in these contexts but these rules haven\u2019t been implemented in eons.<\/p>\n
CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen lashed out at referee Jo\u00e3o Pinheiro for his calls.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s astonishing, to say the least, that a referee with only 15 Champions League appearances is allowed to officiate such a game. And that might explain some of the calls he made today,\u201d he said, according to journalist Kerry Hau from Sky Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dreesen\u2019s scathing remarks perhaps fall on deaf ears since Bayern\u2019s performance too left a lot to be desired. However, in a result decided by a single goal margin, such calls are more decisive than performances themselves. What UEFA will further do for Bayern? Guess we will have to wait and find out.<\/p>\n If you are looking for more Bayern Munich and German national team coverage, check out the latest episodes of Bavarian Podcast Works, which you can get on Acast<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Apple<\/a>, or any leading podcast distributor\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich experienced a shocking loss. The hope of lifting the UEFA Champions League comes crashing down for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71589,18635,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-655388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bayern-munich-front-office","tag-bayern-munich-champions-league","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}