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“Absolutely ridiculous”: Allofs is angry with a bit of defeat
03.08.2025 – 05:21 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
At the start of the 2nd Bundesliga, Düsseldorf goes under at the Bielefeld climber. Sports board member Klaus Allofs reacts significantly.
The promotion aspirants of Fortuna Düsseldorf had imagined the start of the new season of the 2nd Bundesliga. In particular, the referee performance of sports director Klaus Allofs after the significant 1: 5 defeat at promoted Arminia Bielefeld on Saturday evening.
“This is absolutely ridiculous. The first yellow card-you have to live with that. I can still understand and fit the line until then,” said Allofs at RTL about Referee Patrick Alt, who had already pulled four yellow cards in the first half hour of his 100th second division game: “But then giving a yellow-red one is absolutely ridiculous. I believe that it was a wrong decision.”
In the end, after Tim Oberdorf’s first dismissal in his 102nd second division mission in the lower house, it “became a nice clap”. Oberdorf had seen the yellow and then the traffic light card due to repeated fouls within five minutes. The Arminia equalized just 60 seconds later. “Due to the dismissal and the subsequent 1: 1 we then brought ourselves to the losing road,” summed up the 68-year-old.
Bielefeld’s penetent goal scor Julian Kania saw it similarly: “Everything happened at the right time. The yellow-red card, then the equalizer strike so shortly before half. We come from the break and don’t get the penalty less than ten minutes later,” said Kania, who had taken care of the 2-1 lead for the promoted: “With one more, we work out well, and it was very good, and were very well developed, and were very good. Effective.