France lodges a complaint against the disallowed goal to Griezmann-Corriere.it

The French Football Federation is preparing a complaint against the disallowing of Antoine Griezmann’s goal during the match against Tunisia, which ended 1-0 for the North Africans. This was reported by the AFP agency. “We are writing a complaint following Antoine Griezmann’s goal, unjustly cancelled from our point of view» specified the FFF. «This complaint must be sent to Fifa within 24 hours of the end of the match». The goal, scored in the 98th minute, was disallowed after the referee, New Zealander Matthew Conger, he had already blown the whistle for the end of the game. After the triple whistle Conger was called by the Var and canceled the goal.

An offside would have weighed on the action of Griezmann himself who was beyond the Tunisian defenders at the start of the action. A position which according to the French staff it was to be considered irrelevant. The acceptance of the complaint would also be irrelevant. The final classification of group D would still see Mbappè and his companions in first place, followed by Australia; Tunisia and Denmark would still be excluded from the round of 16.

remains the singularity of a goal that will go down in the archives as a “ghost”: scored in the field but canceled afterwards. The history of the World Cup tells of a very similar precedent dating back to the 1978 tournament in Argentinaalways in the qualifying round. They faced each other in the opening match Brazil and Sweden. The match was 1-1 when at the very last breath, Zico, from a corner kick headed through the Scandinavian door. To general amazement the referee disallowed the point deeming that he has whistled the end of the match while the ball was “travelling” between the corner and Zico’s head. But then there was no proof of appeal from the Var and the result did not change.