{"id":675656,"date":"2026-05-31T08:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675656\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:09:11","slug":"arsenal-were-punished-samir-nasri-blasts-referee-for-champions-league-final-decisions-but-denies-extra-time-penalty-call-was-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675656\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal were &#8216;punished!&#8217; &#8211; Samir Nasri blasts referee for Champions League final decisions but denies extra-time penalty call was &#8216;scandal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of the showpiece event in Budapest, where Gabriel Magalhaes skyed the all-important spot-kick to hand PSG the trophy after a 1-1 draw, Nasri did not hold back. Speaking on Canal+&#8217;s Late Football Club, the ex-international alleged that the referee turned against Mikel Arteta&#8217;s side after the interval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the second period, the referee systematically whistled against Arsenal. He punished them for their time-wasting in the first half,\u201d Nasri declared. The Gunners had taken an early lead through Kai Havertz and spent much of the first half frustrating the reigning champions with a disciplined defensive block, a tactic Nasri believes backfired with the officiating crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the aftermath of the showpiece event in Budapest, where Gabriel Magalhaes skyed the all-important spot-kick to hand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[463,10535,55125,294686,1088,294687,294685,403,99],"class_list":["post-675656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-champions-league","tag-luis-enrique","tag-n-madueke","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-paris-saint-germain-vs-arsenal","tag-s-nasri","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}