AKARTA - Borussia Dortmund striker Jude Bellingham considers Chelsea's return penalty in the second leg of the Champions League last 16 a joke. For him the referee's decision was very confusing and unfair.
"It (penalty) itself disappoints and the fact that they have repeated, I think it's a joke," Bellingham said of Chelsea's penalty.
In the match at Stamford Bridge Stadium, Chelsea won 2-0 over the visitors. The Blues opened the scoring in the 43rd minute through Raheem Sterling's goal, then the second goal that ensured the second leg victory was saved by Kai Havertz with a penalty in the 53rd minute.
The penalty prize was awarded by referee Danny Makkelie to Chelsea after Marius Wolf Handball. Havertz, who stepped up as the executor, failed to carry out his duties because he hit the post.
Surprisingly, the referee decided to repeat it. The reason is that Salih Ozcan is considered to have violated the limit.
It was on this second occasion that Havertz then managed to score a winning goal for the Blues.
Bellingham realized that Wolf's position at that time would find it difficult to avoid the ball's arrival in the area of the penalty box.
For that Bellingham feels what happened to Wolf deserves to be considered a violation. However, he did not want to argue too far about it.
Meanwhile, on the other hand, Edin Terzic as Borussia Dortmund also criticized the referee's decision to give a penalty again for Chelsea. He considered the decision as regulated who had the right to qualify for the next round.
However, Terzic firmly said that he was the person in charge of the team's performance in this match and was reluctant to talk further about the referee.
"I think it was a difficult and tough decision," Terzic said.
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