The World Cup last ended practically every week in the past however the drama round it continued because the match referee confirmed a photograph on his cellphone throughout a information convention to reply to claims that Lionel Messi’s extra-time objective mustn’t have stood.
Argentina received the ultimate in Lusail, Qatar 4-2 on penalties after the match ended 3-3 following 120 minutes of motion, with Messi scoring twice and Kylian Mbappe bagging a hat-trick for France.
Szymon Marciniak, the primary referee from Poland to officiate a World Cup last, confronted criticism from French media that he ought to have chalked off Messi’s extra-time objective as a result of two Argentina substitutes appeared to enter the pitch earlier than the ball went into the web.
French newspaper L’Equipe talked about the Worldwide Soccer Affiliation Board’s Legislation 3, paragraph 9, which incorporates that the referee should disallow the objective if a substituted participant was on the sphere of play when the objective was scored.
Marciniak responded to the criticism in a singular method.
He pulled up a screenshot on his cellphone that confirmed seven French substitutes had entered the sphere whereas they had been celebrating one among Mbappe’s targets.
“The French did not point out this picture, the place you may see how there are seven Frenchmen on the pitch when Mbappe scores a objective,” Marciniak stated as he held up the cellphone whereas talking to reporters.
Marciniak’s feedback got here after a petition, asking the ultimate to be replayed on account of officiating errors, was launched. The petition has to date crossed 220,000 signatures.