Bayern Munich left-back Alphonso Davies handled a Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 cross inside the penalty area at close range. There was no intent: the ball first struck Davies on the hip before rebounding onto his hand. Video assistant referee Carlos del Cerro Grande intervened, and, after reviewing the footage, referee Sch\u00e4rer awarded a penalty.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe left arm extends and increases the defensive surface area. The left arm comes out and increases the blocking surface. In my view, it is definitely a punishable handball because the body surface area is widened. Based on these images, the decision was correct,\u201d said leading referee expert Lutz Wagner, backing the official\u2019s call. Kimmich, however, was far from convinced: \u201cThat\u2019s really frustrating, because there\u2019s no opponent behind him who could have scored. The rule could use a tweak.\u201d The 31-year-old added that he would prefer a system where not every handball in the box automatically leads to a penalty, suggesting instead a less severe sanction for such accidental incidents.<\/p>\n
Bayern Munich manager Vincent Kompany called the incident \u201chighly debatable\u201d, while sporting director Max Eberl added in the mixed zone: \u201cThere\u2019s plenty to discuss. The ball hits the body first, then the hand, so perhaps it shouldn\u2019t have been given. But what\u2019s the point of getting worked up now? Unfortunately, he blew the whistle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two Prime experts and former internationals, Christoph Kramer and Mats Hummels, also criticised the decision. \u201cIt\u2019s that super slow-motion again; that\u2019s the worst thing in football, it makes everything look much worse,\u201d complained Kramer. Hummels added, \u201cAfter the shot, the hand flails away, which makes it look worse. The ball bounces off the hip; I always thought that shouldn\u2019t be a penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich left-back Alphonso Davies handled a Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 cross inside the penalty area at close range. There was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14532,4488,85,46,196101,1821,196102,105],"class_list":["post-415666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bayern-munich","tag-champions-league","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-j-kimmich","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-paris-saint-germain-vs-bayern-munich","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}