The PSG-Newcastle VAR referee deprived of dessert! According to the daily The Team, which confirms information relayed by the English press, the Pole Tomasz Kwiatkowski will not be in charge of the match between Real Sociedad and Salzburg as initially planned. In question, the decision of the VAR assistant to alert Szymon Marciniak on the hand of Livramento, leading to a last minute penalty in favor of the Parisians, then trailing 1-0. UEFA considers that the refereeing body made a manifest error in considering that this hand was punishable. The arbitration management of the European Confederation, under the responsibility of the Italian Roberto Rosetti, therefore decided to send Kwiatkowski home. Marciniak should receive a bad grade.
The same Roberto Rosetti rehearsed, at the beginning of September, and in accordance with the rules of the IFAB : “In its guidelines for the next season, the UEFA Football Council recommends clarifying that no handball should be called against a player if the ball has previously been deflected by any part of his body other than the arm or hand, particularly if the ball is not heading towards the goal. »