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It is the 55th minute in Eindhoven when BVB defender Mats Hummels throws away his hands in bewilderment. He cannot believe that the penalty whistle against Dortmund remains valid.
Shortly before, Hummels eliminated PSV striker Malik Tillman with a tackle. Only: Hummels plays the ball first and mainly hits his opponent with his dragged leg. Referee Srdjan Jovanovic is still pointing to the spot. The VAR does not turn on. And Luuk de Jong scores the equalizer.
Hummels: ‘Opponent laughed his head off’
After the match, Hummels was shocked in an interview with Prime Video. “I slide in, I play the ball clear at first, change the path and then catch it a little.” The 35-year-old veteran repeats time and time again that there is ‘zero percent’ a chance that it will be a penalty. The opponents laughed on the field and grinned at him for minutes.
He was also not reassured by former top referee Wolfgang Stark’s assessment that it was a ‘can-do penalty’ because Hummels hit the attacker with his ‘drag leg’. “This statement can only come from the rulebook,” says Hummels, irritated. “Pulling the boat… after I had played the ball three minutes earlier, so with all my love.”
Sammer bursts his collar: ‘Don’t bear it’
Since the introduction of VAR, Hummels’ anger has turned into general criticism of the referees. “I used to think the referees were much better. I feel like they are now making the decision to have it checked,” Hummels says and in his anger he returns to the laughing Tillman: “He only makes a decision afterwards because he knows he ruined the situation. Then grin for five minutes and get a penalty in the eighth finals of the Champions League. You must also expect the highest level from the referees.”
Matthias Sammer had already criticized the lack of quality of the referees for a CL round of 16 a week ago. After Leipzig has already been disadvantaged, this goes completely into depth. There are “too many wrong decisions against German teams”. To the Prime Video expert, this does not seem to be a random accumulation, but rather a development that football Germany must counter. “I appeal to us to show more personality internationally in the committees, to state issues more clearly, to stand up to the people again and not accept it.”
Source : Blick
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