The French Football Federation (FFF) have reportedly asked FIFA for an explanation around Antoine Griezmann’s disallowed late goal in Wednesday’s 1-0 World Cup loss to Tunisia.
The world champions were controversially denied an equalizer deep into stoppage time when Griezmann was deemed offside in the lead-up to his strike.
Griezmann was offside when Aurelien Tchouameni crossed into the box but appeared to be reset when Tunisia defender Montassar Talbi attempted to head it away.
It is believed the referee’s decision to disallow the goal was guided by his view that Talbi’s header, was deemed not a “deliberate play” which has left France fuming.
Play resumed after the goal before the full-time whistle was blown, yet VAR intervened after that. Le Parisien claimed in a report that the FFF have asked for an explanation.
“I need to look at the rules maybe but why did the referee blow the final whistle and then look at VAR?” France head coach Didier Deschamps said. “I’m not sure this is allowed.”
Deschamps had made numerous changes to his line-up for the game, with Les Bleus having already sealed their qualification.
“When we brought on the more experienced players, we had a couple of goalscoring opportunities and thought we’d equalised at the end of the game,” he said.
“The first objective was to secure a place in the round of 16. We took this game into consideration but (our approach) will pay off in a few days’ time.
“We need all 24 players to be available to play on Sunday. We needed to juggle the squad. Say if we’d won, it wouldn’t have changed the fact we play in four days’ time and we topped the group.”
Tunisia would’ve progressed too with victory, if the other group game ended as a draw, but Australia triumphed 1-0 over Denmark.
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