Denmark and pundits across Europe - including Germans - were unhappy with two video assistant referee (VAR) decisions which went in Germany's favour in their Euro 2024 last-16 win.
But despite the furore, Denmark and the same pundits generally acknowledged Germany deserved to win, in no small part thanks to the mercurial talent of Jamal Musiala.
His coolly-taken goal to make it 2-0 on 68 minutes made the preceding rows over a disallowed Denmark opener and Kai Havertz's penalty for 1-0 largely redundant.
The long pass from centre back Nico Schlotterbeck, who hopes to keep his place when Jonathan Tah returns from suspension, was sublime.
But so was the way Musiala begged for the ball from such a distance, beat his man while running onto it perfectly and calmly slotted home.
Musiala undroppable
The Bayern Munich youngster cut a frustrated figure at the Qatar World Cup as Germany crashed out in the group stage. But so far at Euro 2024, he is joint top scorer with three goals and is carrying the hopes of the host nation.
His fellow playmaker Florian Wirtz was surprisingly dropped for Leroy Sané against the Danes, but there would have been a huge outcry if a similar fate had befallen go-to-man Musiala.
"I've always wanted to be active and score goals. I'm happy," Musiala said as Germany made Friday's quarter-final against Spain or Georgia.
"I know I can play even better. The goals help me. I'm still looking to progress."
The fact Denmark put up a good fight made the win even sweeter for Musiala, who could have ended up playing for tournament co-favourites England given he grew up there.
"We had chances to make the game easier. The good thing is that we are creating chances. On other days, they all go in," he said.
Handball and offside criticized
But what about the VAR controversies?
Joachim Andersen thought he had put Denmark ahead just after the second break of the game, the first for a massive thunderstorm and the second for the traditional half-time.
It took 2 minutes for the semi-automated system and VAR to decide Thomas Delaney's toe was just offside in the build-up.
"Disgrace" and "ridiculous" were the most common objections by the Danes, who were infuriated even more when the same Andersen was adjudged to have handled David Raum's cross into the box soon after. Havertz converted the penalty and suddenly Denmark had gone from 1-0 up to 1-0 down in a flash.
Amid the thunderstorms, Danish journalists could not help but bemoan lightning striking twice in terms of the VAR decisions. Even German pundits disagreed with the penalty award after referee Michael Oliver was called to the monitor by the video review team.
Andersen was confirmed to have brushed the ball with his hand due to new technology where a chip in the ball monitors movement. But former Germany midfielder Didi Hamann wrote on X: "Never believed VAR was going to work. Took the good with the bad but tonight is the first time I seriously worry about our beautiful game.
"Snicko improved cricket, Hawkeye improved tennis. Technology is about to ruin football."
Snicko is the term used for tech in cricket which effectively does a similar job to the chip in the football, but another ex-German star was also not impressed.
Former captain Michael Ballack had sympathy for Andersen, telling MagentaTV: "How are you supposed to put your arm down from one metre? He can't even react."
But Ballack did acknowledge the best team won.
"It was a well-deserved victory. The guys did really well," he said.