Germany's followers were furious after receiving a soon penalty in their quarter-finaled defeat to Spain on Friday.
Hosts Germany saw their hopes of a second European Championship title since Euro 96 end on Friday when Mikel Merino's 119th- minute header sealed a remarkable 2- 1 additional- time quarter- last win for Spain in Stuttgart.
A Florian Wirtz 89th- second equaliser meant that the scores were level at the end of 90 minutes, but more drama was to appear in more time before past Newcastle United star Merino's soon winner.
When a Blake Musiala goal-bound shot struck the arm of Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella inside the penalty place, Germany believed they should have been given a penalty in the second half of the extra time. There was no VAR action, and the European penalty appeals were waved away by Premier League referee Anthony Taylor.
" The penalty we got against Denmark was much less of a penalty", an unhappy Germany director Julian Nagelsmann fumed following his team's battle. " I don't understand why it was not evaluated, even though there were 48, 000 videos".
Spain won a Tuesday night semi-final match against France in Munich, but angry German supporters have not stopped them from creating a complaint on Change. com, demanding that the game get repaid.
The complaint quickly went viral, picking up more than 390, 000 names as of Monday noon, but with UEFA confirming after the activity that they believe the right decision was made, the chances of the complaint being productive are non- functional.
With Cucurella's shoulder close to his brain and in a nearly horizontal position, penalties would not be awarded in accordance with earlier guidelines issued before the tournament, which stated that such penalties would not be imposed.
Following the forbidden target scored by Xavi Simons in the Netherlands ' 0- 0 draw with France, when French full-back Denzel Dumfries was determined to have been in an off-side location, this choice was Taylor's and his VAR Stuart Atwell's next contentious decision at the tournament.
Taylor's time at Euro 2024 does look to be over however, with the referee returning home, as per the Mail, who report that England's involvement in the semi- final stage mean that he is unlikely to be chosen to referee Sunday night's final in Berlin.
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