Newcastle’s Howe unhappy with ‘poor decision’ for PSG penalty\u060c<\/p>\n
Eddie Howe said he had to ‘control himself’ after Newcastle’s Champions League hopes suffered a major setback when Kylian Mbappe scored a controversial 98th-minute penalty to earn Paris a 1-1 draw Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes.<\/p>\n
Referee Szymon Marciniak \u2013 the man who officiated the 2022 World Cup final \u2013 awarded a penalty following VAR intervention after the ball hit Newcastle defender Tino Livramento’s arm following the cross ‘Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9.<\/p>\n
– Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n The ball had first hit Livramento’s chest before bouncing off his arm, but Marciniak awarded the penalty after reviewing the incident on the pitchside VAR monitor.<\/p>\n Howe called it a “bad decision” but said Newcastle still had to believe they could progress to the last 16.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, I do,\u201d Howe responded when asked if he felt any sense of injustice about the decision. \u201cIn my opinion, this is not the right decision, but we fear the worst when it comes to the monitor.<\/p>\n \u201cThe speed and the ricochet, slowed down, are different. The ball hits Tino’s chest then his arm, but it is not an abnormal movement.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a bad decision with so little time, but there\u2019s nothing we can do about it now.<\/p>\n “I have to control myself, that’s my job. There’s no point in losing control of what you think and say.”<\/p>\n