“I’ve rarely seen anything like it!”

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The really big theater takes place in the BayArena in Leverkusen on Sunday. Not only in the square, but also in the stands and in the catacombs. The focus: a Frenchman who has been wrongly accused of acting twice.

First in the 53rd and then in the 70th minute, referee Tobias Stieler showed the Leverkusen wing Amine Adli a yellow card. Schwalbe, so the verdict. Both times the player can’t believe it. And both times the VAR collects the warning afterwards and gives the Leverkusen team two penalties.

The Bundesliga duel between the Bayer factory club and the German record champion ends in drama. Because Bayern left the field with a 1:2 defeat, the game also had an aftermath afterwards.

“It was not what Bayern Munich meant”

Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann was the first to criticize his team. In an interview with the Dazn broadcaster, he becomes clear: «Today we were lazy. Defensively and offensively, some players had zero percent quota. We were very weak in our own game presentation. » The defeat was therefore fully deserved.

Then sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic added: “That was not what Bayern Munich meant. We missed everything!”

Salihamidzic watched the bankruptcy together with Bayern boss Oliver Kahn from the stands. Both acknowledged their stars’ poor performance with a sour look. In the belly of the stadium, “Brazzo” then releases even more steam. “I have rarely experienced so little drive, so little mentality, so little dueling, so little assertiveness.” The Munich side are good with the right mentality, but: “It’s not so good when it’s slow and thinks it can do anything with the quality of the game. They just can’t do it.”

Rescued referee Stieler

The mood after the game is significantly better with the referee. “Twice on the next field, two thanks to the Kölner Keller for the great support,” was the conclusion of referee Tobias Stieler at Dazn.

It was a “textbook example of interaction with the video assistant,” says the referee. “He was basically my lifesaver — and for the game of lifesavers, too.”

The fact that the Leverkusen fans reacted to the two VAR scenes with a large banner “Abolish video evidence” fits perfectly into the script of this evening.

Source : Blick