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“Stumbled, strutted” – Sammer’s anger at the referee
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Matthias Sammer was furious after the final whistle in Paris
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Borussia Dortmund loses in the Champions League at Paris St. Germain. After the game, Matthias Sammer started a tirade at the referee. Before he gets started, he asks: “Can I actually be banned?”
Borussia Dortmund got off to a false start in the Champions League. Coach Edin Terzic’s team suffered a 0-2 (0-0) draw against Paris Saint-Germain’s star ensemble on Tuesday. It was a deserved defeat, Matthias Sammer also admitted that. Nevertheless, the BVB consultant and Amazon expert talked himself into a rage after the end of the game.
“It’s clear that PSG was better than Dortmund,” said Sammer and scolded the referee: “I’m glad that artificial intelligence will soon be available. The way the referee stumbled and swaggered across the pitch, it’s no longer any fun.”
It was about the controversial hand penalty that PSG was awarded shortly after the restart in the second half. Kylian Mbappé shot at Niklas Süle’s arm from very close range (47th). Referee Gil Manzano immediately awarded a penalty. That made Sammer angry. Before Sammer went further in his analysis, he asked (apparently in his role as a club advisor): “Can I actually be banned?”
All against one, but one prevails
Those: dpa/Federico Gambarini
He couldn’t, answered moderator Sebastian Hellmann and joked that the most he could do was be blocked by the Amazon boss. With this certainty, Sammer continued his tirade. Above all, the behavior of referee observer Robert Rosetti bothers him. Sammer: “We see that from UEFA sometimes. I don’t know if it’s here today. When he struts around the stadium, the young people think: Strutting is right. I’ve always thought that the referee has to have a certain authority and naturalness on the pitch. I just don’t like this arrogance, this dismissiveness.”
Then Sammer takes aim at the referee observer
But Sammer still wasn’t finished: “That was a decisive scene in the game. This is a total wrong decision. No can or maybe, but a total wrong decision.” Ex-referee Thorsten Kinhöfer sees it differently, he explained to BILD: “The interpretation corresponds to UEFA’s specifications. That’s why the referee did everything right. But in terms of football, I think this interpretation is wrong.”
Incidentally, referee observer Rosetti was not in the stands in Paris, but saw the game of RB Leipzig, which won 3-1 at Young Boys Bern. When Sammer heard that, he said: “He checked how high the artificial turf grows in Bern.”
Artificial turf has been laid in the Wankdorf stadium in the Swiss capital.
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