As of: February 21, 2024, 6:21 a.m
By: Andreas Knobloch
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Borussia Dortmund drew 1-1 at PSV Eindhoven.
The decisive factor was the penalty whistle against Mats Hummels, which was the topic of conversation.
Eindhoven - There was excitement during the game between PSV Eindhoven and Borussia Dortmund, but also afterwards on the microphone with Sebastian Hellmann and Amazon Prime.
Mats Hummels slid the ball away in the penalty area, FCB Bayern loanee Malik Tillmann got caught in Hummels' shoe very late.
Penalty.
A whistle that was incomprehensible to football Germany.
The entire group of experts was shocked and furious.
Champions League discussion on the microphone: “Zero percent penalties” according to Hummels
Hellmann asked Hummels about the 1-1 first leg in the round of 16 of the Champions League.
Hummels was horrified even after seeing the pictures, but tried to explain his argument calmly and objectively.
“Zero percent penalties for me.
Zero.
I play the ball clearly and then catch it just a little bit.
Tillmann laughed his head off on the pitch,” said Hummels on Amazon Prime.
“I don’t understand the referees at the moment.” They are on the completely wrong path and unfortunately he believes the video referee made the referees worse.
“No defender in the world will give you the penalty.”
Referee expert Dr.
Wolfgang Stark tried to explain to the group around Hellmann, Hummels, Tabea Kemme, Nils Petersen and Matthias Sammer why the decision is not as flawed as it seems, but did not find any new friends with his explanation.
“Tricky situation for the referee.
“He hits him with the so-called dragging leg,” whereupon Hummels intervenes and says: “Whoa, hey, professional football.”
Stark explains: “You can give the penalty, it’s nothing for the VAR.
I wouldn't have given it when I was playing." Hummels adds: "That's an explanation that can only come from the rule book and not from football, dragging my leg after I played the ball three minutes before?
With all love.”
“Too many bad decisions against German teams”: Sammer takes advantage of Hummels’ penalty
But the situation was not over yet, as Volcano Sammer began to bubble and eventually erupt.
“A referee has to decide, for football.
This situation, as we are discussing it, does not justify a penalty in the knockout competition in the sense of football,” says Sammer in the introduction, then he goes on: “The fact is that football is a physical sport, which includes contact situations.”
Sammer takes an action by Malen in the Eindhoven penalty area as an example of a penalty.
And then he executes his second point and attacks the association.
Matthias Sammer couldn't be stopped on the Amazon Prime microphone when it came to the penalty decision for Mats Hummels.
© Screenshot Amazon Prime
“Too many bad decisions against German teams.
“I appeal to us to clearly state things internationally in the committees, to stand up to people and not put up with it,” says Sammer.
“Borussia Dortmund receives the sixth questionable penalty against them in the last two years, it's not about the glasses
(editor's note: Dortmund's view of things),
but about the meaning of the game.
“If we discuss the decision here for ten minutes?”
Hummels is then involved again, who agrees with the bad decisions made in recent years.
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Sammer continues to talk himself into a rage: “You have to attack UEFA”, “What kind of people do they employ?”
“My red against Ajax Amsterdam (editor’s note: November 2021), Leipzig’s goal against Real (February 13, 2024), these are common sense decisions.
We give penalties for situations that we wouldn't give a free kick for in midfield.
We are on the completely wrong path,” said Hummels, who “expects the highest level” from the referees.
Expert Tabea Kemme also doesn't see a penalty in the situation and when Hellmann wants to ask referee expert Stark again, Sammer interrupts: “Why does he fall?
By the way, that's the last thing I'll say now: Youri Mulder
(editor's note: expert, former Schalke player)
at the next table, Dutchman, didn't see a penalty either.
Wolfgang Stark tried to classify the scene once more when the volcano Sammer, a man of clear words, finally erupted.
“It’s time we attacked Uefa here, including those responsible for appointing the referees.
What kind of job do they do?
Catastrophe.
“What kind of people do they use?” says Sammer, outraged, because in Leipzig there was a referee with no knockout round experience, and in Eindhoven there was a referee who had been injured for a long time.
“This isn't a trial-and-error constellation, you can do it in the preliminary round.” Things got heated at the Amazon Prime table, an angry speech that was so rare after a round of 16 first leg - and that will perhaps resonate for a long time , also at UEFA.
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