Euro 2024, Germany furious with referee Taylor
Taylor under indictment
Great controversy in Germany after the elimination of the home national team at Euro 2024. Particularly under indictment is referee Taylor, who did not award a penalty for a very clear hand foul by Cucurella on Musiala’s finish at 1' of the second extra time, when the score was still 1-1. Bastian Schweinsteiger, as reported by Sport Bild, said: "Someone has to explain this decision to me. Nine times out of ten it would have been penalty".
Gianpaolo Calvarese on Instagram analyzed the episode this way: "È evident the gesture of the Spanish defender, who with the movement seems to want to intercept the ball with an arm out of silhouette. È merciless in this sense the comparison with the left arm".
Maurizio Compagnoni on Sky Sport è was equally clear, also recalling a precedent that Roma fans have certainly not forgotten: "The foul of hand è so blatant that it would be to send home the VAR, as well as Taylor who combines one moreù than Bertoldo. We just have to figure out if there'è Fullkrug's offside early in the action or a hand foul by the same center forward. Already; the penalty not given to Roma a year ago in the Europa League final was sensational, but here è even more serious is the English referee's mistake. Taylor makes a fool of himself, you can't help but see it in the live stream. He clearly has a concentration deficit, unacceptable for a referee. But he cannot not see the arm so wide from the position he was in. If there is no Fullkrug irregularity, we are at the level of Ovrebo’s scandal in Bayern Munich-Fiorentina in 2010, with Klose’s goal glaringly offside. A mistake that would go down in the history of European and world football".
