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Why is there trouble with Bundesliga video evidence?

Oliver Glasner was certainly not in the mood for a laugh, so Cologne coach Steffen Baumgart managed a remarkable feat on Sunday evening when he somehow amused his colleagues. Glasner, the head coach of Eintracht Frankfurt, saw Cologne’s Eric Martel handball a penalty worth penalties when the score was 0-0 during his team’s 3-0 defeat. When asked how Baumgart assessed the situation, a nice dialogue ensued. “When I’ve seen the pictures, you can ask me again,” Baumgart replied when asked for an assessment, whereupon Glasner interjected: “Then you’ll agree with me.” Baumgart grinned and countered: “I still keep the points. “

That was a nice punchline at the end of a match day, which leaves the fatalistic feeling, even with a winner like Baumgart, of being at the mercy of an arbitrary regime due to the massive presence of the video referees (VAR). There was trouble in Gelsenkirchen, in Freiburg, in Leipzig and in Cologne, and analyzes always come to the same conclusion: the technology helps to avoid mistakes, which leads to more justice. However, the feeling of the players, the coaches and the audience is different.

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