DFB to Tor for Dortmund: No foul game

Hoffenheim’s goalkeeper with bump on the head

DFB takes a scandal goal for Dortmund position

The Siegtor Dortmund against Hoffenheim was controversial. Now the DFB has commented on a supposed foul.

The DFB commented on the controversial scene shortly before the end of the game between Dortmund and Hoffenheim. Carney Chukwuemeka had hit Hoffenheim’s goalkeeper Oliver Baumann on the head in a collision. A short time later, the winning goal for Dortmund fell. “Olli was on the ball beforehand, gets his knee against his head and leaves Ko He sees in a veil’s view of how the ball rolls into the empty goal.” Therefore, it was an “absolutely irregular goal for him,” said Hoffenheim coach Christian Ilzer. The Dortmund coach Niko Kovač, on the other hand, was the first to see his player on the ball.

Now DFB Schiri GmbH spoke up. Their spokesman Alex Feuerherdt clearly introduced: “From our point of view, there was no foul by Chukwuemeka, but a collapse”. After a pass into the Hoffenheim penalty area, Carney Chukwuemeka and Oliver Baumann ran to the ball, which was playable for both.

Baumann had “thrown himself at the ball with some risk” and fended off the ball, but hit the right foot of Chukwuemeka, the “kicker” quotes the DFB spokesman. The Dortmund went to the ground and hit the goalkeeper’s head with his knee.

The spokesman said that referee Benjamin Brand continued to play that a head injury was initially not recognizable, since Baumann also got up and continued to play. It was seen in television recordings how the goalkeeper staggered, there was a big bump on the head. According to the DFB spokesman, the VAR referees would have seen no clear wrong decision