Thomas Tuchel says early offside call was 'against every rule'
I think it’s pretty clear and cannot be, in my opinion, any doubt that it’s against every rule of modern football what happened there. The first big mistake is from the linesman. He did it in a in a action in in the overtime with Alfonso Davis. He did it. Also. He raised his flag straight away when we switched side to Alfonso Davis. I don’t know if it was offside. I got a strange feeling. To raise the flag in a situation like this where you can never, never never be sure that this is offside. To raise to have the balls, to have the guts to raise the flag in a situation like this is a huge, huge call, and it’s a wrong call. The referee has the chance. When he sees that we win the second ball and we win the rebound and we get a shot away within 5 seconds, he has the chance not to whistle. He takes the decision to whistle. It’s against every rule. I’m sorry, we accept. We lost it. It is what it is, but just. That would not have happened on the other side. You can now say no, but if you look a bit deeper, it’s the first match where Alfonso Davis plays left winger for us because there’s no Kingsley Comma search comes from an injury, so there are no wingers left searches out. Leroy Sane just played with pain and pain and pain and and treatment and Hurricane had had back problems and and and Shamai was just dead after having an injury over the last weeks. Is is to it’s. It’s a bit too much because you want to have the chance first of all to have a full competition on the on every position. Like to have the players fit and available for 90 minutes to have King’s Lim Akamai available to to, to make the difference on, on, on, on both wings. So we knew Fonzie did excellent. He scored the goal. We knew that we have to defend on a high position with Cava Hull. Fonzie did this. Excellent and and we caught them in a in a in a faster tech. So everything was fine. But in in in general, there’s nothing against the players who played. It’s just it’s just a huge difference if you make the changes because you want to do the changes to change something and have an impact or you just react to injuries and this was today the case.