As is well known, the VAR should only intervene with clear wrong decisions and call the referee to the monitors. Video assistant Perl, however, took several minutes to evaluate the scene in the various slow motion and from several perspectives. Only then did he come to the judgment that a penalty whistle should have been sounded. From Kessler’s point of view, no clear wrong decision, otherwise the exam would not have taken so long.
“Günter Perl whistled 500 Bundesliga games. The fact that he falls on this scene and sends the referee out is a mystery to me,” said Kessler. Once in Rage, the sports director was hard to stop. “I would be very interested in whether this scene would have been evaluated if FC Bayern had played against Borussia Dortmund and it had been about the German championship,” said Kessler, who was certain: “Then there is no video assistant in this world who sent out the referee for it. That’s why I have very big question marks. I don’t think he wanted to give it, but he was forced to do so.”
Hoeneß, on the other hand, ordered his view differently from a VfB perspective without responding to the role of the Var. “Of course it is our job to see television pictures that were also clear to influence it. I see nothing special,” said the coach. And so there was a penalty that was clear due to the TV pictures-in Cologne’s perspective, however, in Cologne’s perspective.