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Pressure too great after scandal game: UEFA changes the rules in the middle of the tournament

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Three times disadvantaged: The Italians besiege referee Allard Lindhout after a wrong decision in the opening game against France.
Sebastian WendellFootball reporter

Not only players and coaches, but also the Italian newspapers were on 180. “Scandal at the EM” was on the front page of the “Corriere dello Sport” on Friday. The legendary “Gazzetta dello Sport” became dramatic: “As if the players at Wimbledon had to play with Björn Borg’s wooden clubs again. Should we send the chimney sweeps back onto the roofs and the steam engines onto the rails? Is that progress? Where is the logic, dear UEFA?”

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Background: The Italians lost the opening game at the U21 European Championship 1:2. And they quickly found the culprit: Dutch referee Allard Lindhout (35) made three glaring mistakes against Italy – all decisive in the game.

UEFA decision annoyed

In addition to Lindhout, UEFA also gets the fat off. The fact that there is no video referee in a tournament like the U21 European Championship is annoying. It is not a children’s tournament, as the name suggests: seasoned professionals and stars such as Milan’s Sandro Tonali (23), Dortmund’s Youssoufa Moukoko (18) or Chelsea’s 100 million man Michailo Mudryk (22) play here.

Even the Swiss U21 national coach Patrick Frame (54) does not understand it. When asked by Blick, he says: “The tournament is of great sporting importance and arouses a lot of interest. So I am surprised that the VAR is not there from the start. Even though I don’t know the background.”

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UEFA changes the rules halfway through the tournament

And now this: The pressure on UEFA was probably too great after the scandal between France and Italy. On Saturday she will announce that the VAR will be used from the quarterfinals. Means: UEFA changes the rules in the middle of the tournament. Realizes that VAR waiver was a mistake. Unfortunately, the VAR is only used in knockout matches. Because it is precisely the Italians, who complained so much after the match against France, that there was no VAR against Switzerland on Sunday. Patrick Framework’s Nati would probably have conceded two penalties.

UEFA insists on logistical overlaps

UEFA justifies the absence of VAR in the group stage by saying that the introduction of the video referee is currently being prepared in European Championship qualifiers. And that’s why there were logistical overlaps.

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Ah. If that had indeed been the reason, it could have been said from the start. But even the Swiss Football Association is unaware of long-standing plans to deliberately introduce VAR only from the quarter-finals of the European Championship.

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Source : Blick

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