false final whistle, imbroglio with the VAR … the end of the match confusion which planted TF1

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LE SCAN SPORTTF1 returned to the air too early at the end of the match.

So 1-1 or 1-0? A rather crazy scene took place at the end of the match between Tunisia and France. A match finally won by the Eagles of Carthage. You had to be plugged into beIN Sports so as not to miss anything of the last match of the Blues.

Let’s rewind. Match referee Mustapha Ghorbal gives eight minutes of extra time. We exceeded regulation time by seven minutes and around 40 seconds when Antoine Griezmann thought of equalizing at the very end of the match. The French celebrate the goal and the equaliser. The field referee then seems to signal the end of the match. Except that he is replaced by the video referee to check the goal.

TF1 did not show the images

Only, during this very short period of time, TF1 had already returned to the air and sent the advertisement. It was then necessary to be logged on beIN Sports to follow everything live. Recalled by the VAR, Mustapha Ghorbal decides to go and see the images himself on the screen at the edge of the lawn.

The field referee then decides to cancel the goal for an offside position by Antoine Griezmann. Added time is now 12 minutes. The game then resumes for a few seconds before the – real – final whistle is given.

On the replay of the channel, we can see replays of the goal and images of joy from the French for almost two minutes after the last game action. It is on an image of the Blues congratulating Antoine Griezmann that we hear the three whistles, without however seeing the referee.

«We won’t go any further, it’s overexclaimed Grégoire Margotton, before taking a few seconds to debrief the end of the match. However, on the latest images broadcast by the channel, we can see the main referee fidgeting and putting his hand on his headset. He then exchanges with the video-referee.

According to our information, TF1 had started the procedure to start its next program when the final whistle was given. It was then too late to turn back.

The front page, however, apologized on several occasions by the voice of Grégoire Margotton from Qatar and by that of Denis Brogniart during the program “And Mag“. An apology on social networks should be published quickly.

Tunisia won 1-0. A result without gravity for the Blues since the qualification was already assured. The France team still finished in first place in its group. We will find the band at Didier Deschamps this Sunday at 4 p.m., for his round of 16 against the second in group C.

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