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France’s appeal against the decision to disallow Antoine Griezmann’s goal in last week’s shock 1-0 World Cup loss to Tunisia has been dismissed by FIFA.
Griezmann thought he had cancelled out Wahbi Khazri’s strike when he volleyed home in the eighth minute of stoppage time at Education City Stadium.
However, after the celebrations had died down and the whistle had sounded for full-time, referee Michael Conger ruled out Griezmann’s goal for an offside infringement.
The Atletico Madrid forward was adjudged to have been offside when firing in from Aurelien Tchouameni’s pass, which was helped into his path by a Tunisia defender.
But the French Football Federation (FFF) felt the officials were wrong to disallow the goal as play had briefly restarted when VAR intervened, which is prohibited.
“We are writing a complaint after Antoine Griezmann’s goal was, in our opinion, wrongly disallowed,” the FFF said last Wednesday.
Should France have been successful with their appeal, the scoreline would have been changed to 1-1, though the final positions in Group D would not have altered.
However, FIFA confirmed in a statement on Monday that they will not look any further into the matter.
“The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has dismissed the protest submitted by the French Football Association in relation to the Tunisia v France match,” the statement read.
Khazri’s superb strike ended reigning world champions France’s nine-game unbeaten run in the competition stretching back to the 2014 quarter-finals.
Les Blues went on to beat Poland 3-1 in Sunday’s last-16 tie and will now face England in the quarter-finals on Saturday.
