Eintracht Frankfurt heavily criticized the referee team after the 2-1 draw against Borussia Dortmund. The referee then admitted a mistake.
Sports director Markus Krösche got angry about a scene in the 42nd minute when referee Sascha Stegemann did not decide on a penalty after a shove from Dortmund’s Karim Adeyemi. “If we have this video assistant, then just use it. If you don’t use it, my God, then let it be, stomp the basement.”said Krosche.
“Clear penalty and a red card”
Frankfurt coach Oliver Glasner was also dissatisfied: “I saw the pictures and it was a clear penalty and a red card because it wasn’t an offense in the fight for the ball. I think the referees are the poorest then. He’s waiting for the signal from VAR and that doesn’t come . It’s a shame, it’s not the first time. If he doesn’t have the TV picture, then you don’t need him anymore.”
To what extent the video assistant in Cologne had evaluated the scene remained unclear for the time being. Stegemann did not decide on a penalty, but on an immediately following handball. There was a free kick for BVB.
Krosche: “That’s a joke”
“These are things that really get on my nerves”said Krosche. “We have this assistant. Then ask him. And if you then change your mind, that’s perfectly fine with me. But that’s a joke.” Krösche said he did not know whether Stegemann asked.
The Eintracht sports director basically criticized the video evidence: “We’ve had this discussion a couple of times. We’ve talked about it 840 times with the clubs, with the referees. I have no idea, I don’t know what they do, especially how they use it. Sometimes they use it sometimes not. We can’t do it like that, we don’t need it like that. Then I’d rather say the referee made a wrong decision.”
Stegemann admits mistakes
Referee Sascha Stegemann said he had first “not recognizing a clear foul and no clear impulse” be able. “When I now see the pictures with the corresponding camera angles, it is clear that Eintracht Frankfurt should have been awarded a penalty.”