Sometimes madness, sometimes embarrassing
Penalty chaos leaves Freiburg stunned, FC Bayern understands
02.09.2024, 09:15 a.m.
Once again, video evidence is causing outrage in the Bundesliga – twice in fact. In the match between FC Bayern and SC Freiburg, there are two penalties, one on each side. The Freiburgers are extremely frustrated, the Munich team understands.
Freiburg’s captain Christian Günter was stunned, his coach Julian Schuster was even “embarrassed” – two controversial handball penalties caused anger and incomprehension at SC Freiburg after the 0:2 (0:1) defeat at FC Bayern. What’s remarkable is that the sports club even took the second penalty itself.
“In the end, it’s embarrassing when you get a penalty like that. I don’t want a penalty like that. I don’t want it. We don’t need to make up for it,” said Schuster after referee Christian Dingert awarded a handball penalty to Freiburg in injury time. Lucas Höler missed.
Harry Kane, on the other hand, had coolly taken advantage of Bayern’s chance to make it 1-0 in the 38th minute. The VAR had intervened after an alleged handball by Max Rosenfelder and Dingert then revised his decision to award a corner to Munich after studying the video.
“This is nonsense and I don’t understand it”
Freiburg captain Günter spoke to DAZN about an “insane penalty. If that’s handball, I’d rather just stop playing football. That’s nonsense and I really don’t understand it. The people who make that decision have to step in front of the camera and explain it,” he complained, adding: “Then the DFB has to do a training course on how to jump without arms. They have to introduce that. And then they should come before the season and show us how to jump without arms.”
Even Bayern Munich’s sporting director Max Eberl could understand Freiburg’s massive frustration. “In the game, Harry’s header was a corner. That would have been the deciding factor for me,” said Eberl. In principle, it is now “extremely difficult” for the referees. I have to be honest and say that I don’t have a solution either. The simplest solution would be: everything that is a hand is a hand. But then we’re talking about hockey and there will be specialists who will lift the ball to everyone’s hand,” added the Bayern director. You have to “have a bit of a feeling as to whether it really is a necessary penalty or not.” That wasn’t the case twice in the Allianz Arena.