Newcastle United left incensed as controversial late penalty denies them well-known Champions League win at PSG

The soccer social media was swarmed with Newcastle United followers expressing a way of disbelief after the membership’s Champions League match in opposition to Paris St Germain away from house resulted in a draw. Newcastle, enjoying within the Champions League for the primary time in 20 years, had taken the lead via Alexander Isak and appeared set to carry on to it with PSG being unable to transform the plethora of possibilities that they received.

However, it was to not be for the Premier League facet because the referee pointed to the spot put up a examine from the video assistant referee (VAR) and on the pitchside monitor within the eighth minute of stoppage time. The ball had struck Newcastle defender Tino Livramento within the chest after which deflected off his arm, and a penalty was awarded by Polish referee Szymon Marciniak.

Marciniak had allowed play to proceed on Tuesday after the incident regardless of vehement appeals from the PSG gamers. He then stopped play Kwiatkowski alerted him to a possible penalty. Interestingly, UEFA panel of storied coaches and former gamers mentioned in April that “no handball offense should be called on a player if the ball is previously deflected from his own body, and, in particular, when the ball does not go towards the goal.” Moreover, it has now emerged that Kwiatkowski has been instructed by UEFA that he has been faraway from the sport between Real Sociedad and Salzburg.

‘Arms were not in an unnatural position’

The present legal guidelines of the sport permit for handballs to be penalized even when the contact was not intentional and after a deflection if a defender’s arm is judged to be in an unnatural place. “But his hand is not in an unnatural position,” Newcastle supervisor Eddie Howe mentioned after the sport, “(his hands) are down by his side, but he is in a running motion.”

The cross from Ousmane Dembélé that struck Livramento was additionally going backward — and never in the direction of purpose. The penalty resolution within the PSG recreation instantly affected the standings within the tightly fought Group F, because it stored PSG two factors away from Newcastle within the second qualifying place for the spherical of 16 behind group chief Borussia Dortmund. “I feel it is a poor decision and it’s hugely frustrating for us as you know how little time there is left in the game,” Howe mentioned. “There is nothing we can do about it now.”