Certainly, for a first day of competition, this Wednesday was somewhat chaotic during these Paris Olympics. After the access problems at the Parc des Princes for the match between Spain and Uzbekistan, the match between Argentina and Morocco, played in Saint-Etienne, ended in total confusion.
The equalizer by the Argentinian Medina, at the end of an extended injury time (90th + 15), led to the invasion of the pitch by about twenty Moroccan supporters. Bottles and cups were also thrown, forcing the referee to invite the players to return to the locker rooms. Everyone thought that he had whistled the end of the match. This was not the case.
More than an hour later, the official website of the Olympic Games still indicated that the meeting was only “interrupted”. According to The Teambeyond the incidents with the spectators, the video assistants also wanted to review the action of the last goal, perhaps tainted by an offside, a foul or both.
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Finally, almost two hours after Argentina’s equalizer, the players from both teams were announced for warm-up, a sign that things were going to start again. Which was the case a few minutes later, in front of empty stands, with the score at… 2-1 for Morocco, so VAR had indeed been there. Medina’s goal was disallowed for offside. The restart lasted three minutes, with nothing to report this time. So Morocco won this match that will undoubtedly go down in Olympic history.