DAt VfL Wolfsburg, there is a risk that his new coach Mark van Bommel will end up in the DFB Cup due to a mistake. Oliver Glasner’s successor changed six players on Sunday in a happy 3: 1 (1: 1, 0: 0) after extra time at the fourth division club SC Preußen Münster. Three in regular time and three in extra time. According to the statutes of the German Football Association, only five are allowed.
Münster, which turned on a law firm, now wants to protest against the rating of the game. The club has until Tuesday noon and will officially announce it when the decision of the various bodies is in place.
In extra time, in which Wout Weghorst (103rd minute) and Ridle Baku (120th) scored for a hard-fought victory, the Wolfsburg-based company is said to have asked the fourth official several times about the possibility of substituting up to six players. There was no objection to this. Thereupon van Bommel changed first of all newcomer Sebastian Bornauw and then Admir Mehmedi. The latter was one too many.
The decisive moment: Admir Mehmedi (2nd from left) and Sebastiaan Bornauw (left) are substituted on
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What could Wolfsburg threaten now? Ex-Bundesliga referee Thorsten Kinhöfer said on “BILD live”: “If the sports court says that the referee has violated the rules, then the game is more likely to be repeated. If, according to the court, Wolfsburg made the mistake, then in my opinion the game will be rated for Münster. “
Wolfsburg admits substitution errors
VfL Wolfsburg has now admitted the mistake and taken responsibility for it. “VfL Wolfsburg made a mistake during the cup game at Preußen Münster. This is extremely annoying, but unfortunately it cannot be reversed. We will analyze the issue internally and make sure that something like this does not happen in the future, ”CEO Jörg Schmadtke was quoted on Monday in a message from the Bundesliga club.
The sports director also ruled out that this mistake will cost the new coach Mark van Bommel or another member of his staff the job. “We are all disappointed, of course, but still convinced that we will continue our sporting development without drawing any personal consequences from this annoying situation,” said Schmadtke.
“We will analyze the topic internally and make sure that something like this no longer happens in the future,” said Jörg Schmadtke
Source: dpa / Swen gatekeeper
With all the anger and frustration, you should keep the ball a little flatter. “Even if we had briefly thought about registering all those involved for a basic adult education course” Reading Correctly “, but after careful consideration we refrained from doing so.”
The discussions about the possible objection began on Sunday evening. The error was made when the score was 1: 1, so the game was still open and an advantage for the Wolfsburg was given by a fresh man more on the pitch without a doubt. “Yes, we are aware that Wolfsburg has made six changes. We will discuss this internally and decide whether and how we should proceed against it, ”said Prussia’s manager Peter Niemeyerder“ Bild ”after the game.
The DFB rules are clear as far as the change quota is concerned. “During the game five players may be exchanged. An additional substitution going beyond this in games with overtime is not permitted,” says paragraph 31, point 3a.
Wolfsburg disappointed on the pitch
In terms of sport, Wolfsburg was about to end. The fourth division had taken the lead through Marcel Hoffmeier (74th) in front of 6,703 enthusiastic spectators, but substitute Josip Brekalo (90th) had saved the big favorite in extra time. The bad form of preparation with six test game failures in a row seemed to continue seamlessly. VfL could not think of anything against the passionately defending founding member of the Bundesliga.
VfL Wolfsburg and coach Mark van Bommel are threatened with defeat at the green table after a mistake
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Under the new coach as the successor to Glasner, who had migrated to Eintracht Frankfurt, there was not much to be seen of a game idea. Coach Hildmann’s Prussian team, which will also start playing against Alemannia Aachen next weekend, however, delivered a real cup fight.
A quarter of an hour before the regular end of the game, the Prussians were even rewarded for their passion when defender Hoffmeier met after a corner. Shortly before the end of regular time, Brekalo used a cross from Kevin Mbabu to equalize. In extra time, goalkeeper Koen Casteels saved VfL from falling behind again before Weghorst and Baku scored a happy victory. The DFB now has to check whether it will last.
Regardless of whether the protest goes through or not: The image of van Bommel and VfL Wolfsburg has already been scratched.
Well-known predecessors of the alternating fault coaches
From Hennes Weisweiler to Giovanni Trapattoni to Otto Rehhagel and Christoph Daum: mistakes are a tradition in football and have also been made by the greats of the coaching guild. The Wolfsburg are affected for the second time in the DFB Cup.
Hennes Weisweiler was the first coach in 1977 to make a major mistake in the Bundesliga. The then Cologne coach changed the third foreign player in Roger van Gool at Eintracht Frankfurt. At that time only two were allowed. However, it remained without consequences: The Cologne lost 0: 4 anyway.
In 2004 Wolfsburg suffered the first round off. At that time, VfL had already lost the game at 1. FC Köln II (3-0) at the kick-off, because coach Erik Gerets set up the red-blocked access Marian Hristov. “I have to take responsibility for it,” said manager Peter Pander at the time. Two days later he had to leave office after 13 years, his departure was presented as a resignation.
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