FC Augsburg is annoyed because of controversial penalty – referee and Var in focus

Captain Jeffrey Gouweleeuw was talking about. Coach Jess Thorup was talking about. Sports director Marinko Jurendic also had a need for speech. They all worked on this one scene. A scene that had an effect in the belly of the TSG arena and ensured that the series had ended an abrupt end at FC Augsburg.

For 70 minutes everything had run according to Thorup’s plan. As in the previous weeks, his team celebrated minimalist football. Consistently defended her own goal, met with the first real chance. Striker Samuel Dessende had achieved 1-0 15 seconds after his substitution and thus put up a Bundesliga record. Esende would be well – How recently Phillip Tietz against VfL Wolfsburg – became a match winner because he would have scored the winning goal. However, this prevented the scene that was so defeated from the Augsburg perspective.

Augsburg’s defender Chrislain Matsima had blocked a shot from Hoffenheim Dennis Geiger and shot Gouweleeuw from the short distance to the inner arm. Referee Tobias Reichel hesitated, then pointed to the point. For Gouweleeuw « incomprehensible ». He couldn’t complain. « Nowadays you can’t say anything about the referee. The player noticed that referee Deniz Aytekin could still be discussed. « With the rest, I have the feeling that you get the yellow card immediately. »

FCA captain Gouweleeuw: « Referee does not know when it is a penalty. »

The exchange with the referee was one thing, the trigger the other. Gouweleeuw described the scene. His arm was natural that he was shot. « The ball goes away from the goal, I’m in motion. What should I do there? » Augsburg’s captain summed up: « The referees do not know themselves, when is it a penalty and when not. » Gouweleeuw made an offer on the pitch after the final whistle. He should look at the scene and could then come to him again.

It is not known whether Reichel accepted the offer. Finally he got a visit himself. From Jurendic. Last week had in Frankfurt The German football league (DFL) Tighted. Among other things, he was Video Assistant Referee (var) has been an issue. Decisions should not be delayed over minutes that the net playing time increases. Now Jurendic did not avoid dealing with the VAR. From the point of view of the FCA sports director, the punishment decision was in a « gray area », that is, neither black nor white. The47-year-old sounded through that he would have liked a longer decision-making. « For us it is about a lot, » emphasized Jurendic. You have to take this into account. Accordingly, the referee should have studied the scene on the screen. If this does not come to any other result, it is a « closed circle ». « In such hardship cases, I expect the game to interrupt, it goes out and that you take the necessary time. »

Coach Thorup did not want to comment on the referee at the press conference. « It was not a penalty for me, » he said later. For Thorup, Jurendic and Gouweleeuw it is probably a weak consolation, but the DFB A that the penalty was a wrong decision. « It would have been right to let it continue. An intervention by the video assistant would have been appropriate, » said Alex Feuerherdt, Head of Communication and Media Work at DFB Schiri GmbH, and added: « The ball came from a short distance from a teammate and was not to be expected for Gouweleeuw. Especially since he changed direction after blocking. »

Trainer Thorup is angry and is loud in the cabin

The anger of the Augsburg was not only founded in the penalty scene. At the same time, they were annoyed by themselves. In the first half, the Hoffenheim opportunities and a post hit at home have been booked at home since mid -November. Instead of putting pressure on the opponent, passivity shaped the game. Thorup was angry, became loud at half -time. The evening before, at the team meeting, he had talked to his players in the conscience. Nobody should think that after ten games everything comes on their ownaccording to the Dane. « I don’t know why the team didn’t understand that. »

The FCA climbed up a place in the table and is now eighth with 39 points, but the disappointment predominated. There was not only because of a scene.