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“Mbappe's goal shouldn't have happened”


Article by Aurelian Botezatu – Published on Thursday, 16 April 2026, 09:43 / Updated on Thursday, 16 April 2026 09:43

Antonio Rudiger's foul on Josip Stanisic happened just 17 seconds before, at the end of a counter-attack, Kylian Mbappe scored for 2-3, from Vinicius jr's pass (min. 42).

Josip Stanisic: “Rudiger sees me coming and pounces on me”

The “central” Slavko Vincic did not sanction him in any way, which attracted the vehement protests of the Bavarians. Coach Vincent Kompany had to replace Stanisic at half-time due to the injury and the Croatian defender complained at the end.

“For me it's just a foul,” said Stanisic, who also reviewed the incident, in the mixed zone: “Rudiger sees me coming and rushes at me. Then I pass to Serge Gnabry and he loses the ball. Another referee would initially award lead, then if you lost the ball he would come back and award a free kick“.

Bild specialist: “Such a situation makes VAR useless”

Bild tabloid specialist on arbitration, former FIFA “central” Manuel Graefe, is of the same opinion. “That makes VAR useless!! Sometimes it intervenes, as happened on Tuesday in Atletico v Barcelona, ​​even if Clement Turpin originally wanted to give a yellow card, which would have been justified.

And today he doesn't intervene even in obvious cases, such as the foul before Mbappe's goal, 2-3. If Vincic had stopped the game and given the proper free kick, there would have been no Mbappe goal in the next phase,” says Graefe.

Real Madrid reproached Zlavko Vincic for the removal of Eduardo Camavinga

The Madrid players also had a tooth against the Slovenian “central”. Coach Alvaro Arbeloa accused Slavko Vincic of giving him the second yellow card too easily (86) and that he didn't even know that the Frenchman had one more and that the Bayern players had caught his attention.

You can't eliminate a player like that. The ref didn't even know he had a card, that's why he took him off, but he ruined a double which was nice. Bayern players had to remind him that he was second. But this one… wasn't even yellow”, lamented Arbeloa.

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