Congratulations to Onisiwo, he is now our top scorer in the Bundesliga (along with Quasion, 1 goal away from the sole top).
The result is fair in my opinion, it’s also nice when time is not always rewarded (no reproach to the SCF, we wouldn’t have done it any differently in your situation). If a draw, then with a finish like that, it feels like a point gained instead of two lost.
Only one thing still irritates me and I like to listen to neutral opinions, maybe I’m a bit “blinded” by my own fan glasses, but how can you not see Höfler’s action against Barriero as an emergency brake? He holds him tightly and Barriero would have run for goal alone, absolutely indisputable for me and the wrong decisions against us are now piling up from week to week, whether with VAR (see Hertha penalty last week) or without.
He walks away from the gate. As a former referee – it’s not a red card, you have to go towards the goal. And then we don’t even get to the rating of the scene itself – both are clinging, Höfler is more overreaching, yeah. Probably foul, but certainly not clear.
All in all, it would be almost scandalous if the VAR reported – no emergency brake because the player is running outwards and it is not a clear chance to score in the sense of the rules – and then it is not even clear whether it is a foul at all and who first fouls.
Regarding the time game: which game did you watch? The SC always played on quickly, almost too quickly for me personally. When Kübler fell injured (and your fans yelled “you s**”)? Or when Streich gave your player the ball in the 96th minute to throw in? That’s really an absurd accusation after this game. With time wasting you brought it home easily today, but I feel after Thursday’s criticism of Juve that was completely dispensed with and you were given any quick execution.
Seriously – after the game you get annoyed about such comments. “It’s nice when time play isn’t always rewarded,” after THIS game, this end, when Streich immediately puts the ball in the hand of the thrower in the very last action. Uff. Uff uff. Does that have to be?