How Arsenal and Liverpool benefitted from VAR failures AGAIN | Ex-Premier League referee reacts
A REFEREE was forced to give two penalties after players from both teams bizarrely picked the ball up in separate incidents.Credit: XFurth
defender Gideon Jung had a moment of madness, picking the ball up off the ground in the six-yard box after it was rolled to him by goalkeeper Nahuel Noll. He seemingly thought it was given to him to take a goal-kick - but with the ball not having gone out of play, theJung thought his blushes were spared when Noll saved the spot-kick, only for Mo El Hankouri to score the rebound.Win a VW Campervan or £50,000 cash alternative from just 26p with our discount code
He appeared to think the ref had blown for a foul on the edge of his own box - yet in fact he had not and it was therefore a clear penalty.Fans were baffled by the incidents, with one saying: "To have this happen at all is fairly crazy to begin with, to have this happen twice within 30 minutes in the same match is completely absurd."Eight bizarre football rules you may not knowArsenal could have absolutely no complaints if a penalty was awarded to Bayern Munich.
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