1:4 in Bochum
“Clear red card”: BTSV coach reprimands referee
April 13, 2026 – 11:20 a.mReading time: 2 minutes
The frustration runs deep at Eintracht Braunschweig: In Bochum, BTSV clearly loses 1:4. The anger is then also expressed at the referee.
That was nothing: in the basement duel in the 2nd Bundesliga against VfL Bochum Eintracht Braunschweig Clearly losing out on Sunday. After the 4-1 defeat at Castroper Straße, coach Lars Kornetka was noticeably dissatisfied – but not just with his team’s performance. The BTSV coach also directed critical words towards referee Wolfgang Haslberger.
The assessment of one scene particularly annoyed Kornetka: Shortly after the start of the second half of the game – when the score was 0:2 – Bochum professional Matúš Bero came too late against Max Marie and clearly hit him in the ankle. Referee Haslberger pulled out a yellow card. “For me it’s a clear red card,” Kornetka said at the press conference afterwards. “It was a clear foul and then the game might have turned out differently.” The situation must be blamed on the referee team.
Bochum was lucky with a decision from the referee in the first round. After a duel with Noah Loosli in the Bochum penalty area, BTSV striker Jovan Mijatovic went down in the 16th minute. The penalty whistle didn’t happen – just like in the final phase, when Leandro Morgalla Mijatovic hit Mijatovic with a press shot in the box.
On the other hand, Haslberger pointed to the point after Leon Bell slipped away and Bochum professional Callum Marshall fell. Philipp Hofmann converted the penalty to make the final score 4-1. “We get the penalty against us. The player stops the ball. He jumps away. He had no chance of getting to the ball,” Kornetka told the “Braunschweiger Zeitung” about the scene.
Ultimately, Kornetka didn’t want to blame the defeat on the referee. Too many ball losses and mistakes led to the “bitter” outcome of the game. “We didn’t get control of the game the way we wanted to,” said Kornetka. “We were too dangerous to score and couldn’t threaten VfL’s box as much as we should have. In the end, the win is fine for Bochum.”
For Braunschweig this means: the situation in the bottom of the table is becoming more and more precarious. Because the competition scored points, BTSV fell back to relegation place 16. A reaction is required next Sunday in the home game against Hertha BSC (kick-off: 1.30 p.m.). Goalscorer Lino Tempelmann is combative: The situation is “disgusting,” he says. “But we won’t give up.”
