Robin Knoche (30, left) cannot stop Yussuf Poulsen (28, middle), who passed Frederik Rönnow (30) to make it 2-2 – but that didn’t count. © Karina Heßland-Wissel
Aissa Laidouni (26) tried to play the ball with his heel behind his back in a “reflexive and instinctive movement” with the high ball in his own half, said Tobias Reichel (37), who was VAR of the game in which Sport1 broadcast. Thus, Timo Werners (26) grabbed offside.
The scene continued at first, at the end of which Yussuf Poulsen (28) scored in Frederik Rönnow’s (30) box.
In the video assistant center (VAC) it was then decided to bring referee Daniel Schlager (33) to the screen to show him the scene. His decision is known.
First boycott, then spectacle: Union Berlin ends Leipzig’s mega series!
There are three criteria for referees in such a situation, as Reichel explained: the space in the scene, the situation itself and the player’s posture.
The ball games were “definitely conscious, but in an uncontrolled way,” the 37-year-old explained his train of thought.
Timo Werner (26, right), whose offside position was punished, discussed so much that he saw a yellow card. © Imago/Matthias Koch
For double pass guest Max Kruse (34), himself a Union striker between summer 2020 and early 2022 and currently without a club, it is “completely incomprehensible how you can give offside. According to the rules, that may be correct, but the ball is about two Seconds in the air and he decides to actively go to the ball – a completely new game situation for me.”
Stefan Effenberg (54) also jumped to the side of RB. According to the 2001 Champions League winner, the word “controlled” should be removed from the rulebook: “It was clearly conscious and for me it wasn’t offside either.”
The “Amazon Prime Video” presenter Lena Cassel (28), for whom there was a wrong decision, had dealt with the changed set of rules in advance.
Emotional rose stinky after RB Leipzig’s offside compensation: “I just don’t understand it!”
“The ball is in the air for a long time, Laidouni has no opponent pressure, he deliberately takes three steps back, the ball is not deflected. There are a lot of parameters that have been in the regulations since the summer that make it a controlled game. There I ask myself, why do you make such an adjustment when it is interpreted differently?”
But all the complaining and moaning will bring nothing. The Saxons not only have the game, but are now seven points behind the table leaders FC Bayern Munich lost while the FCU lurks just one point behind the record champions.
