World Cup: when beIN TF1 room

“France-Poland Round of 16 to live live and until the last moment on beIN Sports”. This is fair game. In the trailer for Sunday’s 4:00 pm meeting between the Blues and Poland, beIN Sports, which broadcasts all the matches of this World Cup at home, took the liberty of referring to a small peak on TF1 this Thursday, the only free-to-air broadcast of certain matches in France.

The day before, when the referee for France-Tunisia had just whistled for the end of the match just after Antoine Griezmann equalized at the end of extra time (1-1), TF1 quickly returned to the antenna and broadcast a long advertisement. tunnel almost four minutes. Back then beIN Sports viewers were the only ones to witness the use of VAR to finally cancel the Frenchman’s goal.

It wasn’t until the reopening of the antenna within Denis Brongniart’s Mag that Grégoire Margotton and Bixente Lizarazu, specially sent commentators, were able to announce this rebound. And thus formalize the defeat of the “blue” from the Tunisians (1:0).

Shortly after, TF1 apologized to its 9 million viewers for its confusing management of the moment. While in Qatar, the French federation was putting together a case to file a complaint following this appeal to VAR, which should not have been possible due to the re-entry just before the end of the match by the referee, so beIN showed himself teasing in his trailer. Even if we can be sure that TF1 will now be more vigilant before returning the antenna. In order not to miss these famous “last moments”.