🇩🇪 Jürgen Klopp on the Germany job: "I'm more than recharged now. So I'm ready. It's a very, very attractive task, a very important task. I can't help but say that it does interest me" [@MagentaTV]
Klopp on that disallowed Germany goal: "If that's a disallowed goal, then Arsenal wouldn’t be English champions. They scored 60% of their goals like that." 💬
🚨🇫🇷 OFFICIAL: Michael Olise, FIFA Man of the Match on his World Cup debut.
✨ 1 assist
👌🏼 100% shot accuracy, 2/2
🧞♂️ 14 passes into final third
🛡️ 6/9 ground duels won
🧠 4 chances created
💥 2 big chances created
🍿 2/3 successful dribbles
🚨🗣️ Oliver Kahn on how Bayern Munich got “robbed,” pointing to a penalty incident on Joao Neves and a second yellow for Nuno Mendes not given:
“I’ve been in this game for decades, as player, captain, and now in the club and I have NEVER seen three clearer decisions ignored in one Champions League night. This wasn’t a football match, this was a robbery in broad daylight and every single Bayern fan knows it.
Let’s start with the Nuno Mendes incident. He’s already on a yellow card, everyone knows that. The ball comes in, and his arm is clearly out, there’s a clear handball. Now, we can debate intention all day, but the modern interpretation is about position and impact, and his arm is in an unnatural position blocking play.
That alone puts him in serious trouble. When you’re already booked, you simply cannot take that kind of risk. It’s basic football intelligence. That should be a second yellow card, no discussion. Instead, the referee looks at it and decides… nothing. No accountability, no consistency. So what are players supposed to think? That the rules change depending on the moment?
And then we come to the penalty situation, which for me is even more shocking. Vitinha clears the ball, yes but what happens next is the key point. The ball makes contact with Neves’ hand inside the penalty area. I keep hearing people say, ‘oh, it came off a teammate’, so what? Since when did that cancel out a handball?
The laws of the game don’t say ‘only if it comes from the opposition.’ A handball is a handball if it creates an unfair situation, and here it absolutely does. His arm is involved, the ball changes its path, and Bayern are denied a clear opportunity. At this level, with VAR available, how do you not give that?
And then, to top it all off, you book Luis Díaz for protesting? For reacting to a clear foul that isn’t given? So now we punish players not just with wrong decisions, but for showing emotion about those wrong decisions? This is unbelievable. You are asking players to be robots in moments where everything is on the line.
You cannot tell me Bayern Munich weren’t affected by this. These are game-defining moments. A red card changes everything. A penalty changes everything. Instead, both situations are ignored, and we’re left talking about the referee instead of the football. That’s a problem.
At this level, the Champions League, the biggest club competition in the world, you expect clarity, you expect courage, and above all, you expect fairness.
Tonight, we got none of that. And if this is the standard, then we have a serious issue in European football, because clubs invest everything to compete here, and they deserve better than decisions like these deciding their fate.”