The end of the Champions League match between HBC Nantes and FC Barcelona, which took place this Thursday, October 31 and ended in a draw (31-31), turned out to be as crazy as it was vague. But why was the ball given back to the Barcelona team on the last possession of the game?
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The end of the match between Nantes and Barcelona was confusing. Rok Ovnicek, here behind Nicolas Tournat, was guilty of a funny gesture, which gave the Catalans a match point. | JÉRÔME FOUQUET/WEST-FRANCE.
There was obviously a need for an outcome worthy of the crazy match that handball fans experienced, this Thursday, October 31, between HBC Nantes and FC Barcelona, on behalf of the 7th day of the Champions League. While the Nantais, who had been running behind the score throughout the match, had a match point at 31-31, twenty seconds from the siren, the ball was returned to FC Barcelona by the referee. If the H escaped at a lower cost thanks to Ivan Pesic's heroic last-second save, the referee's decision was not understood by everyone, in the stands or in front of television.
While the sequence suggested a bad change on the Nantes side, it turns out that it was Rok Ovnicek, centre-half of the H, who pressed the buzzer to call a time-out. However, only the coaches of the two teams are entitled to do so.
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