Bavaria in bad luck – that’s why a hamburger did not flew off the square

“Small regular expert”

HSV in happiness-referee stings against Bayern star

When he returned to Munich, the HSV received a decent clap. It could have been much worse before the break.

Hamburger SV had to take a hearty 0-5 defeat against FC Bayern on the third Bundesliga matchday-and could be happy not to have ended the game outnumbered. Because referee Tobias Stieler refrained from putting a Hamburg-based man with yellow-red at the meantime of 2: 0 from a Bayern perspective.

What happened? In the 22nd minute, Hamburg’s Aboubaka Soumahoro led a duel with Serge Gnabry in his own penalty area. The Bundesliga debutant got the ball by hand, referee Stieler did not realize the scene and initially let the game continue. Shortly afterwards the video assistant reported, Stieler looked at the handball on the screen and decided on a penalty.

However: Soumhoro was warned in the first minute after a foul to Bavaria’s Michael Olise with yellow. Despite the handball in the sixteen, Stieler decided to send the 20-year-old off the pitch with yellow-red. After the game, the 44-year-old gave an insight into his thoughts: “I wonder: What is the player’s intention? He doesn’t want to make a handball, he wants to keep Gnabry away-only the ball is in the way,” said Stieler after the final whistle at Sky.

He also wondered whether it was a “promising attack” to be prevented and had concerns: “Once the Hamburg player was not taken out of the game, then the ball was in the air.” So Stieler decided against the yellow-red card-also because he was able to watch the handball several times on the screen.

TV expert and record international Lothar Matthäus disagreed. He saw an offense “that could have been punished,” he said at the Sky table. Stemen countered: “I also know about the scope of a yellow-red card. (..) I can give yellow-red, but I have to have a must for myself.” He needs a hundred percent.

So the HSV remained in eleven-entirely to the incomprehension of the Bayern players. Joshua Kimmich and Josip Stanišić protested at Stieler. “They asked each other briefly,” said the referee, but the two then agreed to the explanation. Matthäus turned up again, reminded of Kimmich’s objections on the first matchday 6-0 against RB Leipzig. “Kimmich is always right with such explanations,” he said in Stieler’s direction. The lawyer agreed Matthew and stuck towards the DFB captain: “A small regular expert.”