Eintracht Frankfurt loses after a big fight against Borussia Dortmund. Also because referee Sascha Stegemann overlooked a clear foul by BVB player Karim Adeyemi. Nothing stirs in the Cologne basement. SBU boss Krösche is beside himself and scolds like a reed sparrow. Stegemann is meek.
Eintracht Frankfurt's sports director Markus Krösche criticized the referee team after the 1: 2 against Borussia Dortmund. The 42-year-old was upset over a scene in the 42nd minute when referee Sascha Stegemann failed to decide on a penalty after a nudge from Dortmund's Karim Adeyemi. "If we have this video assistant, then just use it. If you don't use it, my God, then let it be, stamp the basement," said Krösche, who did not want to express his criticism as an "alibi" for the defeat.
To what extent the video assistant in Cologne, colloquially in the "Kölner Keller", had evaluated the scene remained unclear in the evening. Stegemann did not decide on a penalty, but on a handball by the Dane immediately after Adeyemi pushed Jesper Lindström. There was a free kick for BVB. "These are things that really get on my nerves," said Krösche.
"We have this assistant. Then ask him. And if you then change your mind, that's perfectly fine with me. But that's a joke." Krösche said he did not know whether Stegemann asked.
The Eintracht sports director basically criticized the video evidence: "We've had this discussion a few times. We've talked about it 840 times with the clubs, with the referees. I have no idea, I don't know what they're doing, especially how they use it. Sometimes they use it, sometimes they don't. That's for me ... we can't do it like that, we don't need it. Then I'd rather say the referee makes a wrong decision, that's human, no Theme."
Stegemann later admitted his mistake. "There should have been a penalty. There was a clear impulse with both hands," he said on Sky. On the pitch, however, he only saw a normal duel and even after communicating with the VAR in Cologne, this assessment did not change. According to the TV pictures, he now has to change his mind. "We will work through the scene in the coming days," said the referee.
BVB also admitted that they got away with this situation. "It's one of those situations where we've been lucky," said coach Edin Terzić sheepishly. "But we are happy: the threesome was important."
