{"id":429415,"date":"2026-05-07T04:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/429415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:42:13","slug":"too-much-went-against-us-kompany-laments-refereeing-as-bayern-go-out-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/429415\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Too much went against us\u2019: Kompany laments refereeing as Bayern go out | Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"

A frustrated Vincent Kompany lamented a series of refereeing calls against his Bayern Munich side as they were pipped by Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> to a place in the Champions League final against Arsenal.<\/p>\n

Harry Kane\u2019s late equaliser<\/a> at the \u00adAllianz Arena was not enough to \u00adprevent a 6-5 aggregate defeat, \u00adBayern toiling for much of the night after \u00adOusmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\u2019s third-minute goal for PSG. But Bayern were \u00adfurious when the visiting defender Nuno Mendes was not shown a second yellow card for what appeared a deliberate first-half handball, PSG being awarded a free-kick instead, and their anger increased when no penalty was awarded after Vitinha\u2019s clearance struck the arm of Jo\u00e3o Neves.<\/p>\n

In practice handballs are rarely awarded when the result of a teammate\u2019s intervention but Kompany, who was unhappy when PSG were given a spot-kick for handball against Alphonso Davies in the first leg, sensed the combination of decisions against his team had taken the tie away from them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to look at some of the phases that were decided by the officials across the two games which \u2026 it\u2019s never an excuse for everything but it matters,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we look at both legs probably too much went against us. The guys gave everything and we tried against a fantastic PSG team.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Jo\u00e3o Neves\u2019s] hand is in the air, it\u00a0hits it. Because it\u2019s from his own\u00a0teammate it\u2019s not a penalty. But if you look at both [situations], a \u00adlittle bit of common sense and it\u2019s just\u00a0ridiculous. Whatever needs to happen but it\u2019s ridiculous. It doesn\u2019t tell the\u00a0whole game but it\u2019s a one-goal game in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mendes appeared to be spared a red card after the referee, Jo\u00e3o \u00adPinheiro, spotted a previous handball offence against Bayern\u2019s Konrad Laimer. \u201cI felt he pulled out because he realised he already gave him a yellow and he didn\u2019t want to send him off for that,\u201d Kompany said.<\/p>\n

Kompany\u2019s opposite number, Luis Enrique, could look ahead to a mouthwatering final match-up against his fellow Spaniard Mikel Arteta. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be different,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have been performing the whole season at a high level, they were unbelievable. We want to continue making history in Paris, and to make history we need to win the second one in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A frustrated Vincent Kompany lamented a series of refereeing calls against his Bayern Munich side as they were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-429415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429415","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=429415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}