Over here (France), every comment last night was that the decision was correct to disallow the goal, same again this morning. A large part of that is regular media reading a prompter line gave them that info, but the sports pundits are all saying the same thing. Not one that I have heard expressed any doubts or said they'd like a second look etc. The only "neutral" take was that VAR had sanctionned a handball by Mac, with no further comment, in one of the l'Equipe articles.
No point in mentionning the RMC commentary we had to endure on French TV either, it was so lopsided and partisan.
Actually, apart from ourselves in here and some social media, there's been no mention of it at all in the various reports I've read. We can't be the only ones that know or care what the handball rules are? I'd be embarassed if that was disallowed up the other end of the pitch, it's just an incorrect application of pretty clear rules that stinks of widespread incompetence in the refereeing bodies, general indifference to the proper application of the rules by the wider footballing community, and a startling rise in a partisanism that would prefer to see opponents screwed by bad decisions than beaten fairly just to better thumb their noses and laugh.
In the end, we'll qualify, so who cares? The better team won, so who cares? All these things are important. If not now, then in a couple of games time or at the end of the season etc. It's important that you have an off-day and still claw yuor way back to get a draw. That the other team were "better" should never be a consideration. You score the goals or you don't. If they are illegal, they should be chalked off, if they are legal, they should stand. It's really not any more complicated than that.
