1 – Deutschland schied zum ersten Mal bei einer Weltmeisterschaft im Elfmeterschießen aus, nachdem man die vier vorherigen dort für sich entschieden hatte; zudem war es erst die zweite Niederlage im Elfmeterschießen bei einem großen Turnier nach dem Finale der EM 1976 gegen die Tschechoslowakei (3-5).
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Herbert Hainer on Germany's disallowed goal against Paraguay after the VAR review:
🗣️ “I am absolutely stunned by that decision. This is the FIFA World Cup, not a competition where goals are taken away for the slightest touch. Germany have been robbed of a massive moment, and I cannot understand how the referee and VAR arrived at that conclusion.”
“VAR was introduced to eliminate clear mistakes, not to invent controversy. There is simply not enough there to disallow that goal. Decisions like this damage the credibility of football and leave millions of supporters questioning what the rules actually are.”
“You cannot ask players to compete at the highest level and then punish them with decisions this soft. Germany earned that goal through determination and quality, only for it to disappear because of an interpretation that many people simply won't accept.”
“If this decision costs Germany a place in the next round, it will become one of the biggest talking points of this World Cup. The referee and VAR have placed themselves at the centre of the match, and that should never happen.”
“For me, Germany scored a perfectly good goal. The players deserve better, the supporters deserve better, and football deserves better than decisions like this.”
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