After the 1-1 draw against Bochum, Oliver Glasner was satisfied with his team’s performance – not quite with that of the referees.
Oliver Glasner gave a thumbs up – only to a limited extent for the referees.
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Frankfurt’s coach Oliver Glasner quickly dealt with the conclusion of the game on the microphone at DAZN. His team put in a great performance, which is why he was disappointed with the 1-1 draw against Bochum, but “very satisfied with the performance and the performance”.
The coach wasn’t quite as satisfied with the referee’s performance by Harm Osmers’ team, who had to evaluate several tricky scenes at the same time.
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The 0:1 by Takuma Asano was again preceded by a standard situation in the 14th minute. Even before the game, Glasner had spoken of a “never ending story”. In addition to the insufficient defense of his eleven, Glasner was annoyed that Christopher Antwi-Adjei had moved the place for his throw-in cross further forward. The SGE trainer had already tried to complain about this in the game and repeated his accusation after the game: “You can see the imprint of the tackle. In the end it’s almost five meters more and that has an impact.”
Five meters that brought Antwi-Adjei closer to the sixteen and thus Bochum closer to scoring – according to the 48-year-old, who also added: “We know we can defend it better.” Nevertheless, Ivan Ordets was allowed to extend with a header, finish off Anthony Losilla and dust off Asano.
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Bochum’s lead didn’t last long because Randal Kolo Muani was up and away. In the penalty area, Ordets, who was panting behind, brought him down from behind. The attacker converted the penalty kick himself. “If the foul happens with the hand, it’s a red card, if it happens with the foot, it’s yellow because then there’s no triple penalty,” explained Glasner. “And here the foot was miles away from the ball.”
Referee Harm Osmers left it yellow – and left the Bochum defender on the field in the 60th minute when he again committed a yellow-worthy foul on Djibril Sow. Thomas Letsch changed that just three minutes later and got Ordets off the field.
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In the final phase, in which a dominant Eintracht could no longer really become mandatory, Glasner would have liked to hear the second penalty whistle of the game. Kolo Muani made a sharp pass inside the penalty area, Dominique Heintz straddled and got the ball on his supporting hand.
“If it’s a supporting hand, it’s not a penalty. But then we were told that if the arm is above shoulder height when straddling, then it’s an increase in body area, then it’s a penalty again,” Glasner explained at the press conference and asked : “I don’t know when this angle applies. 135 degrees, maybe only from 140 – I don’t know. You would have to look it up in the FIFA regulations.” For Osmers and also VAR Sören Storks it was a supporting hand, there was no further penalty whistle.
There were only seven referees at work today, which is a bit too few.
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This had not happened before, when Aurelio Buta went down in a running duel with Antwi-Adjei (57th). For Glasner a situation “which was clearer for me” because Buta was held by the opponent’s arm and the coach considered this holding to be the cause of his player’s fall.
Glasner didn’t want to go into general criticism, after all, his team had enough chances to decide the game. At the press conference he summarized smugly: “There were a few unfortunate situations today, but again: no fault. There were only seven referees at work today, that’s a bit too few.”
