DFB grants serious mistakes with a controversial penalty against FC Augsburg

Chrislain Matsima had a clear opinion. A wrong decision was the penalty for Kiel in the first half, emphasized FC Augsburg’s defender immediately after the final whistle. Matsima had been found in a duel with Alexander Bernhardsson, and used a tackle that referee Harm Osmers classified as violent. Despite a review by the video referee, the episode was a penalty for Kiel. The transformed Shuto Machino to 1-0, In the end it was 3-1 for the guests.

The Augsburg excitement was great. Likewise the trouble about the decision. On Monday, the German Football Association confirmed (DFB) In the form of Marco Fritz, Head of Evaluation and Rule interpretation of DFB Schiri GmbH, when asked by the specialist magazine Kickerthat there was an error by the person involved. So from field referee Osmers and video assistant Sven Jablonksi.

« In his tackling against the ball -bearing Kiel Alexander Bernhardsson, the Augsburg Chrislain Matsima played the ball with his right foot in his own penalty area, which also changed his direction of running, » explained Fritz. And: « At that moment there was also a slight contact on the right foot of the attacker, but in our view, this was not the cause of the fall of Bernhardsson. The playing of the ball was in the foreground in this action, the fall of the striker resulted from a subsequent, non -punitive body contact due to the tackling.

There was also a wrong decision in Hoffenheim

Fritz also provided an explanation of why Jablonski did not intervene. From his point of view, « the playing of the ball was not in the foreground in Matsima’s tackling », « but physical contact against Bernhardsson at a high pace ».

The Augsburgers had already complained to the referee during the break, sports director Marinko Jurendic had gone into the cabin. Coach Jess Thorup also assured several times after the game that Matsima clearly only played the ball. They were confirmed in their view on Monday. But points no longer bring.

For the FCA, it is the second case with a referee decision that was subsequently declared by the DFB. In the 1-1 draw in Hoffenheim, the Augsburgers had received a penalty against themselves when the ball in the Jeffrey Gouweleeuw penalty had crashed into his arm. Tobias Reichel had decided on a penalty to the incomprehension of many after a short hesitation.

In the evening, a few hours after the game, the DFB had announced, that the penalty was a wrong decision. « It would have been right to let them continue to play. An intervention by the video assistant would have been appropriate, » it said in a message. The video assistant had checked the scene on Sunday against Kiel. The decision remained anyway – and was wrong.