Kasper Schmeichel has hit out at the officiating after Celtic were denied a penalty in controversial fashion during their 2-1 defeat to Bayern Munich at Celtic Park.
A lengthy VAR check took place in the second half after Arne Engels appeared to be fouled in the box, prompting the VAR team to advise the referee to review the incident on the pitchside monitor. Despite the extended review, the referee stuck with his original decision and waved play on, leaving Celtic fans inside the stadium stunned.
Schmeichel, speaking candidly in a post-match interview with his father, Peter Schmeichel, for CBS Sports, didn’t hold back in his criticism of the call.
“I don’t know what rules are in football anymore,” Schmeichel said. “I mean, what’s a penalty, what’s not a penalty? It’s literally whatever the referee has woken up and felt that day.”
Seeing the replay back, the Celtic goalkeeper was even more baffled by the decision.
“Oh my God. That looks like a penalty. It looks like a clear penalty. Had that been the other end, that was a pen.”
A penalty at that stage could have completely changed the momentum of the tie. Celtic went onto peg one back through Daizen Maeda but should we have already been 2-1 by that point?
With the second leg at the Allianz Arena next week, Celtic will now have to overturn the deficit in Germany. It’s a tough order and most likely an impossible task, but the players will go there and hold nothing back.
He’s not the only one baffled. He gave at least 3 corners when it wasn’t and incidently one led to their second goal. A clear penalty the excuse given by the VAR relayed by media commentators is the most lot of waffle I have ever heard. Maybe he was like a lot of our players, star struck. No excuse . He was abysmal and it’s time our board started calling out these inept refs. If these decisions had gone against Bayern you can be sure he wouldn’t be refeering another game in the CPL. We deserve to be in the CPL along with the rest of them so why do we put up with this? Oops sorry, I forgot we have a board that can’t be arsed.
Your blaming our board for poor a referee…ffs…get a grip…
It’s as clear a peno as u will see ever , but we don’t these going our way and what he means is Celtic fc need to make a comment and ask the question why , I’m not saying become statement fc but that is clearly a penalty