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Leo Beenhakker accused Howard Webb of effectively knocking Poland out of Euro 2008 with his decision to award Austria a stoppage-time penalty on Thursday night in Vienna.Poland were leading at the Ernst Happel Stadium until the 93rd minute when Ivica Vastic scored from the spot after Mariusz Lewandowski was penalised for holding Sebastian Prodl's shirt.
Webb and his team of assistants are the only Englishmen at the tournament and Beenhakker thought the man in charge was trying to steal the limelight.
'Maybe he wants to show he is a big boy and has the guts to do it, I don't know,' Beenhakker said. 'I've never had a problem in 43 years of being in football but this is something I cannot understand.'
Poland can still qualify for the quarter-finals but need to get a win against Croatia, who are the first to go through from Group B after beating Germany 2-1. Even then they are relying on other results going their way.
'It's impossible to accept but I am working on it,' he said,
'I'm very satisfied with the boys, I have no complaints about the boys.
'We don't have it in our own hands any more and the conclusion is we are out of the tournament.'
Austria also had reason to be upset with the officials as Brazil-born playmaker Roger Guerreiro was offside when he tapped in his first goal for Poland.
'I was told the Poland goal was offside but if the referee does not whistle it is a goal,' said Austria coach Josef Hickersberger.
Beenhakker claimed the draw hurt more than the defeat by Germany in their opening match of the tournament.
'If you lose a game because they score two and you don't it's different and tough but you accept it,' he said. 'Sometimes you don't get what you deserve. This hurts much more than the first match.
'It was the only situation to survive in the tournament. Austria is excited about the result. Our conclusion is that with this result we are out of the tournament.'
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UEFA backs referee over controversial award of penalty for pulling at European Championship:
VIENNA, Austria: Football spectators and analysts have complained for years that the penalty area resembles little more than a wrestling ring at corners or free kicks, with referees criticized for doing nothing about the unseemly jostling and pushing by players.
The situation seemed unchanged at the European Championship until, deep in injury time on Thursday, English referee Howard Webb awarded co-host Austria a penalty kick after Poland defender Mariusz Lewandowski had pulled Sebastian Proedl's shirt.
The decision led to Austria saving a 1-1 draw and sent Poland coach Leo Beenhakker into paroxysms of rage at the apparent inconsistency in officiating, but UEFA said Friday that Webb had acted entirely correctly.
"You saw that the free kick was taken twice. There was a lot of wrestling in the area and that's probably why, since he was confronted with the problem during the match, that he finally took that decision," UEFA spokesman William Gaillard said. "He was certainly within the laws of the game, that's for sure.
"Maybe he considered this foul was worse than what he had experienced during the rest of the game."
Poland, which had led for most of the game through Roger Guerreiro's 30th-minute opener, was just unfortunate to be the tournament's first victim of UEFA's instructions to provide a high-profile example to officials across the continent by implementing the laws of the game to the letter.
The ruling body sent a DVD to all coaches before the tournament, with conduct at corners and free kicks highlighted as something referees would be monitoring.
Beenhakker had no problem with UEFA's stance, just that it seemed to take until the 12th match of the tournament for officials to carry it out.
"One of the subjects of the DVD was the free wrestling style you see in football," Beenhakker said after the match. "It said the referees were instructed to look for it when it was very strong, but until now in all the matches there had been free wrestling. There is the usual wrestling we see in the last five years in football and, I don't know why, but maybe at that moment the referee wants to show he is a big boy and he can do it."
Gaillard said that UEFA could take action against the usually calm and polite Beenhakker over his comments, but that its disciplinary committee would only act if his conduct made it into the official match reports.
The penalty area at corners has got increasingly aggressive over recent years, with as many as 20 players cramming in. Attackers seek desperately to lose their markers and find enough space to create a scoring chance. Defenders are under strict orders to stick to their targets and have become adept at surreptitious techniques for putting off their opponents.
Nudging, pushing, shoving, jabbing of elbows and the pulling of shirts are all common and referees frequently have to stop play to restore order before a kick can be taken — as happened at Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna on Thursday.
UEFA can't be too unhappy with Webb's performance, even if it contrasted with that of referees at the previous 11 matches. Gaillard said there was no reason why he shouldn't take charge of games later in the tournament.
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goal from penalty in 93 minute? It can be only in 4th league match i thought till yesterday match.....
Swiss had lost her games and came off so in order to it wasn't shame they gave to draw Austria.
Sorry for my English, if i do mistakes please correct me.
That's right!
if the referee does not whistle it is a goal unfortunately, but It's a shady business, it should go to UEFA.
Eurosport:
Poland's prime minister Donald Tusk has admitted he felt like he "wanted to kill" after English referee Howard Webb awarded the injury-time penalty that allowed Austria to snatch a 1-1 draw at Euro 2008.
Polish players played good game(without first 30 minutes) and deserved to win and 3 points. And Webb should referee game Austria - Deutschland on Monday
'Maybe he wants to show he is a big boy and has the guts to do it, I don't know,' Beenhakker said.
I love Leo, great coach, great man and handsome
Poland's prime minister Donald Tusk has admitted he felt like he "wanted to kill" after English referee Howard Webb awarded the injury-time penalty that allowed Austria to snatch a 1-1 draw at Euro 2008.
ok he said so, but this is exaggeration:
Howard Webb could get police protection after Poland's prime minister admitted he felt like he "wanted to kill" following the English referee's decision to award an injury-time penalty that allowed Austria to snatch a 1-1 draw at Euro 2008.