DFB admits errors
Leipzig-Tor denied: Var intervention was irregular
23.08.2025 – 3:41 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Leipzig does not carry out a free kick in accordance with the rules, the subsequent gate is withdrawn. Now the DFB comments on the scene in Munich.
The DFB granted a mistake in the application of the video assistant at the Bundesliga start between FC Bayern and RB Leipzig. This was preceded by a goal from Antonio Nusa for the supposed 1: 4 in the 66th minute – after an irregularly executed free kick from Castello Lukeba. Referee Florian Badstübner took the goal back. The content of the decision was correct, but the intervention of the VAR was not permitted according to the DFB rules.
Alex Feuerherd, Head of Communication and Media Work by DFB Schiri GmbH, told the “Kicker”: “The fact that Lukeba, instead of performing the free kick correctly, simply got off with the ball, none of the impartial on the field.
Leipzig’s central defender Lukeba had not carried out a free kick in his own half with a contact with the contact. In a multi -minute interruption, video referee Tobias Welz referred to his colleague Florian Badstübner. Bavaria captain Joshua Kimmich had previously done this vehemently and saw the yellow card for this.
“Due to the unusually violent protests of Bayern, the referee was nevertheless prompted to ask the VAR. In the sense of football, the VAR then decided to a brief reference to the irregular free kick execution in the sense of football, because nobody understood if this goal had counted,” said Feuer herdt: “In the end, the right decision was not to be given, but the claim must be such a situation – so so curious and rarely. It is also – to be solved correctly in the field. “