In the 74th minute, referee Christian Scheper interrupted the game when the score was 1:1 (1:0) because a firecracker was ignited in the stadium. According to Preußen Münster, the substitutes Marvin Thiel (blast trauma) and Jannik Borgmann (shock) were injured. After deliberations, the game was stopped about 20 minutes later.
According to a Prussian report, the firecracker was “thrown from the home block of Essen in the direction of the field” been and “immediately behind our substitutes” landed.
Uhlig: “That’s not RWE”
“It’s very, very unpleasant what happened here. Two Prussian substitutes got injured.”he said RWE-CEO Marcus Uhlig to “Reviersport”. “I don’t want to speculate whether the game will be repeated or how it will continue. What’s also important to me: It’s not RWE, it’s not Hafenstrasse. The action of one individual can really break something here.”.
“These are scenes that nobody wants to see and that don’t belong in a football stadium”commented Münster’s sports director Peter Niemeyer. “At least two of our players were directly affected and could no longer have been used. Together with Rot-Weiss Essen and the team of referees, we assessed the situation responsibly, so that the referee finally stopped the game.”
