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Champions League: “Bottomless” – Wolfsburg’s anger over the video evidence

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“Bottomless” – Wolfsburg’s anger over the video evidence

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Wolfsburg coach van Bommel – “Don’t know what the referee saw”

VfL Wolfsburg scored the next point in the Champions League game against FC Sevilla. Shortly before the end, the Spaniards saved a very questionable penalty whistle. Wolf coach Mark van Bommel feels betrayed by two points.

Until shortly before the end, VfL Wolfsburg looks like the winner against Sevilla FC. Then the referee gives a questionable penalty after video evidence. The anger about the decision is great. Clear words are spoken.

Mark van Bommel was angry. And what that means has been known in German football at least since his time as the alpha male of FC Bayern Munich. So the new coach of VfL Wolfsburg said very clearly about the questionable penalty whistle, which brought his team to their first win of this Champions League season on Wednesday evening in a 1-1 (0-0) against Sevilla FC shortly before the end : “Everyone here in the hall, in the stadium and in front of the television agrees that this is not a penalty. And you can overdo that with the video referee. “

Only his midfielder Maximilian Arnold was even more outraged: “That’s a bit bottomless,” he raged. “I don’t know if they were using the video evidence for the first time, if this is new to everyone. You can’t whistle something like that in the Champions League. “

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The controversial scene took place in the 84th minute when the score was 1-0 for VfL. Wolfsburg’s Josuha Guilavogui spiked the ball in the penalty area out of the danger zone and then hit the shin of the Seville professional Erik Lamela while moving. The referee Georgi Kabakov from Bulgaria, who was very insecure from the start, initially allowed the game to continue until the Dutch video assistant Kevin Blom intervened.

Rakitic converts penalties confidently

“I have to pull myself together. He only shows him the still image, you can whistle a lot of penalties, ”said Arnold, venting his anger over the subsequent video study. And indeed, in this one snapshot, it looks as if Guilavogui, with his open sole, is only targeting his opponent’s shin.

It is probably the only reason why Kabakov, unlike all the players, coaches and fans of VfL, rated the scene as a reckless entry and even sent the Wolfsburg midfielder off with a yellow-red. Former Schalke Ivan Rakitic confidently converted the penalty for Sevilla (87th).

The decisive question about the scene of the game was then asked by the player who had put Wolfsburg in the lead in the 48th minute: “Where should he go with his leg after that?” Said Swiss Renato Steffen. “He can’t magic it away.”

Trouble with video evidence in Milan too

Van Bommel went to the referee on the field after the final whistle and said afterwards: “My only question for him was: Why did he make this decision? But I didn’t get an answer. We would have deserved to win. “Arnold saw it that way:” Without the referee, Seville would not have taken anything. “

The bitter thing for VfL is: Instead of keeping the supposedly strongest opponent of this Group G at a distance with four points, the Bundesliga club is now only in third place with two points. “Everything is very close in this group. It will probably stay that way until the sixth matchday. That means: every point is very expensive. Four points after two games is in this group is completely different from two points after two games, ”said van Bommel.

Coach Mark van Bommel has to wait for the first win in the new Champions League season

Coach Mark van Bommel has to wait for the first win in the new Champions League season

Source: dpa / Swen gatekeeper

In addition, however, the already much-criticized video evidence influenced the outcome of a game in a highly controversial way twice on this second Champions League matchday. On Tuesday evening, van Bommel’s former club AC Milan lost 2-1 to Atletico Madrid with a penalty goal in stoppage time. Here, too, the video assistant watched a controversial scene for minutes and, in the opinion of many critics, overlooked the fact that a Madrid player had more likely to play the ball by hand than the Milanese.

“I am a friend and opponent of the video evidence,” said the Wolfsburg coach. “Why? You can make the right wrong decisions. That makes football better. But you are always dependent on the decision of the person sitting in front of the television. “

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