RB Leipzig’s Marco Rose was really upset when he wrongly withdrew the equalizer against Union Berlin.
Leipzig – “How could we actually lose the game?” Asked an emotionally battered Marco Rose (46) after the 1-2 defeat von RB Leipzig against 1. FC Union Berlin. He was really upset about the equalizer, which he thought was wrongly withdrawn – but he was alone in front of the camera with this opinion.
Yussuf Poulsen (28, left) turns away in disbelief while referee Daniel Schlager (33) raises the offside arm. © Imago/Matthias Koch
79 minutes: Benjamin Henrichs (25) moves the ball sideways and crosses into the penalty area, where Marcel Halstenberg (31) heads in the middle. Yussuf Poulsen (28) sprinted there, sinking the ball to make it 2-2. Referee Daniel Schlager (33) is sent to the monitor by VAR and takes the goal back.
Reason: In the scene before, RB striker Timo Werner (26) was offside with a long ball that was supposedly canceled because Aissa Laidouni (26), who was in front of him, hit the play equipment with his heel behind his back, causing it to change direction . New game situation or not, that was the question. Schlager said no and offside.
Sky expert Lothar Matthäus (61) was also of the opinion: “He couldn’t control him because he put his heel behind his head … so he didn’t see the ball. How he does it is uncontrolled.”
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Ex-national player Tabea Kemme (31) also saw it this way: “I only control the action when I have a certain field of vision of the action.”
Referee expert Alex Feuerherdt: “The goal would have counted last season”
Not happy with the referee’s decision or the rule interpretation: RB coach Marco Rose (46). © picture point/Sven Sonntag
Sky moderator Sebastian Hellmann (55), on the other hand, could understand the protests of the Saxons: “He deliberately decides to take the ball like this. RB can’t do anything about the fact that the ball then becomes uncontrolled.”
Referee expert Alexander “Alex” Feuerherdt (53) wanted to bring light into the darkness. First, he said that the goal counted last season, “because that moment of control didn’t matter.”
Feuerherdt continued: “It was crucial here that the ball would have gotten through to Timo Werner had it not been touched. The touch of the ball was therefore limited and the ball didn’t change direction that much. The decision was the right one.”
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No big surprise that RB coach Marco Rose didn’t think so at all. It got emotional!
First he commented on Feuerherdt: “I have a lot of respect for your referee expert. But so far he has actually always managed to explain the referee’s decision in a way that somehow suits him. I’ve never heard that he once said: ‘The referee was wrong.'”
Marco Rose at a loss: “He wants to clear the ball with his heel in a controlled manner, period!”
Rose also disagreed with Sky expert Tabea Kemme (31), who analyzed the game with Lothar Matthäus (61, right) and moderator Sebastian Hellmann (55). © imago/eibner
Rose did not understand the referee’s decision that you “can’t play the ball so controlled with the heel if you don’t see it”. “He wants to clear the ball in a controlled manner with the heel, period. He wasn’t shot from a meter. I just don’t get it.”
Referee Schlager tried to explain the rules and the situation after the final whistle: “He sees the ball, but the moment he plays it with his heel, he does it in an uncontrolled way because he doesn’t see the ball. That was the deciding factor for me.”
Rose was allowed again: “The boys train football every day. Maybe a referee should come and see what we’re doing. The boys can juggle the heel without seeing the ball – 20 times if they want . Nobody can tell me that this player didn’t want to control the ball with his heel.”
Emil Forsberg (31, left), Timo Werner (26, right) and André Silva (27, behind) still received applause. © Picture Point/Roger Petzsche
Tabea Kemme then threw fuel on the fire, who raised the question of whether the Red Bulls lost focus on their own game due to the alleged wrong decision and allowed themselves to be overly emotionalized.
“Please?!” Rose asked again, pausing for thought. “If you feel that that was our issue, that we misbehaved on the pitch and didn’t concentrate on our performance… I see it a little differently. I think the tendency from the question is a shame, mine too team opposite.”