- Francesco Camarda scored a header within the closing levels on Tuesday evening
- He celebrated wildly however his aim was chalked off as he was simply offside
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AC Milan striker Francesco Camarda had a historic second cruelly taken away from him by VAR throughout his aspect’s 3-1 win over Membership Brugge on Tuesday evening.
Camarda got here off the bench within the seventy fifth minute to make his Champions League debut after two second-half objectives from Tijjani Reijnders had opened up a cushty benefit for the Italian giants at San Siro.
Three minutes from time, he regarded to have gotten his dream second as he latched on to Reijnders’ cross and looped his header past the goalkeeper.
Aged simply 16 years and 226 days, Camarda believed he had simply turn out to be the youngest Champions League goalscorer in historical past, and celebrated wildly by ripping his shirt off and throwing it on the ground.
He was duly mobbed by his team-mates, however VAR shortly clicked into gear to verify it was a official aim.
Francesco Camarda (high) thought he had turn out to be the youngest Champions League goalscorer ever
After celebrating wildly, his aim was dominated out for offside, leaving Camarda devastated
After taking a look at a number of replays, it was determined that Camarda was simply offside when the cross was performed in, and his effort was dominated out.
{The teenager} regarded devastated as he discovered that his aim wouldn’t stand, and he sat on the ground together with his head bowed at full time after failing to seek out the online within the remaining minutes.
He’ll nonetheless get extra possibilities to interrupt the document, although, which is at the moment held by Ansu Fati when he scored for Barcelona in opposition to Inter Milan on the age of 17 years and 40 days in 2019.
Camarda was clearly gutted, but it surely was a optimistic evening for Milan who lastly bought their first European factors on the board after dropping their opening two matches in opposition to Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen.
Regardless of Camarda’s heartbreak, Milan nonetheless gained 3-1 due to a brace from Tijjani Reijnders (pictured)
Former Chelsea star Christian Pulisic opened the scoring earlier than Kyriani Sabbe equalised for Brugge shortly after half time.
Reijnders then took centre stage with two strikes in 10 minutes earlier than Camarda virtually bought his record-breaking aim within the closing levels.
