While Messi scored again in extra time to restore Argentina’s lead, Mbappe converted the penalty with three minutes remaining to force a shootout. Argentina won 4-2 on penalties after Kingsley Coman and Aurelien Tchouameni both missed.
However, a week after the final, the game’s referee, Szymon Marciniak, made an astonishing revelation about a mistake he made during the final.
Of course, there were errors in this final, he admitted to Sport.PL. I interrupted the French counter-attack after a bad tackle by Marcos Acuna.
I was afraid that the fouled player wanted to unwind, and I read it wrong because nothing happened, and you could give an advantage and then come back with a card.
It’s difficult. In a game like this, I make such a careless error in the dark. What matters is that there were no major errors, Marciniak said.
Earlier, the French newspaper L’Equipe referred to the International Football Association Board’s Law 3, paragraph 9, which states that if a substituted player was on the field of play when the goal was scored, the referee must disallow the goal, referring to Lionel Messi’s goal in extra time of the final.
Marciniak reacted to the criticism in an unusual way.
source: ESPN UKHe showed a screenshot from his phone of seven French substitutes entering the field while they were celebrating one of Mbappe’s goals. The French didn’t mention this photo, where you can see how there are seven Frenchmen on the pitch when Mbappe scores a goal, Marciniak said while holding up his phone to reporters.
The FIFA World Cup final referee makes an unexpected revelation about a ‘mistake’ he made during the game: ‘I was worried…’
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