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Decisive scene in Bayern victory shows mercilessly the big Bundesliga problem

2023-02-15T13:17:29.335Z


With a bit of luck, FC Bayern Munich won the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Paris. The VAR played an important role in this.


With a bit of luck, FC Bayern Munich won the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Paris.

The VAR played an important role in this.

Paris – From minute 57 the game was different: At this point Kylian Mbappé entered the lawn of the Prinzenpark to give the Champions League round of 16 between Paris Saint-Germain and FC Bayern Munich a different direction.

Kingsley Coman (tz-Note 1) had scored the 1-0 for the guests just a few pointer revolutions earlier.

And in the end it should stay at this score - although two goals had actually been scored.

How could it be otherwise, Mbappé scored both.

However, both were irregular due to a previous offside position.

The second Paris goal in particular was a delicate decision.

And yet the team of referees around Englishman Michael Oliver managed to resolve the situation in less than 50 seconds!

In the Bundesliga it would probably have taken several minutes.

Decisive scene in Bayern victory shows mercilessly the big Bundesliga problem

The VAR often doesn't work the way you want it to in Germany - but it does on the international stage.

The scene surrounding the supposed 1:1 once again mercilessly shows the big Bundesliga problem.

But there is an explanation - and a view of improvement, as reported by tz.de.

What actually happened?

Neymar sent Nuno Mendes into the alley after 82 minutes, whose cross threw Mbappé into Bayern's net.

The clock showed 81 minutes and 30 seconds.

Ecstasy at the Parc des Princes, PSG had finally equalized after a bland performance to date.

FC Bayern also defeated Paris thanks to VAR: the offside decision was recognized at lightning speed

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expert Benedikt Höwedes was just analyzing the goal with slow-motion shots before the live image and referee Michael Oliver could be seen again.

He raised his arm and indicated offside, the clock just jumped to 82 minutes and 20 seconds -

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commentator Jonas Friedrich said in disbelief: "Wait a minute, hits don't count, it was offside.

The toe!

The toe of Mendes.

Withdrawn.

It remains 1-0.”

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Kylian Mbappé hits the supposed 1: 1 for Paris against FC Bayern.

Referee Michael Oliver rightly withdrew the goal due to a previous offside position.

The verification took less than 50 seconds.

© kolbert-press / district photo / imago

Mendes is minimally offside at the supposed 1: 1

In fact, one could guess that Mendes, who provided assists, had probably been marginally offside.

But to make such a decision in less than 50 seconds at such an important moment of an important game deserves respect.

Especially if you know the VAR from Germany, where it sometimes takes several minutes for such a scene to be cleared up.

The fans on Twitter were also amazed at the quickly exposed offside: "Was it just me who had the feeling that the VAR decision was made much faster than it is in the Bundesliga with the VAR?", "VAR is in the UCL better and faster than in the Bundesliga” or “In the Bundesliga it would have taken the VAR easily 10 minutes” it said immediately after the scene.

VAR fast in the Champions League, lame in the Bundesliga

But why is it that the Champions League is going so fast?

A short time later, the fans also saw an offside graphic that they had never seen before in the Bundesliga.

The experts from Collinas Erben immediately provided the answer: semi-automatic offside technology.

This records the "body points of the players and the position of the ball", so an offside position can be recognized in a matter of seconds.

In Germany, the lines still have to be drawn manually, which of course takes time.

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Photo gallery: The Champions League winners since 1992/93 - can you still get them all together?

Semi-automatic offside technology soon in the Bundesliga?

But there is also good news for German fans.

According to Collina's heirs, the new system could one day also be standard in this country.

A tweet on Tuesday evening said: "Because there were several questions about it: the DFL clubs would have to agree to the introduction of semi-automatic offside technology, it will primarily be a question of money (but will probably come at some point).

They also wanted to first evaluate the experience gained at the World Cup.” The first leg of the CL round of 16 showed once again that the new technology should be worthwhile.

The international press saw a “dreary PSG” that “Bayern punished”.

After the game, Julian Nagelsmann warned his players "not to put their feet up".

(acl)

List of rubrics: © kolbert-press / Revierfoto / Imago

Source: merkur

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