The sending-off of Dortmund’s Mahmoud Dahoud in Mönchengladbach is still stirring things up a day later: BVB managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke criticised referee Deniz Aytekin.
“His gestures and facial expressions add to the hecticness, he acts like a bandleader,” Watzke said on Sunday in the Sport 1 programme “Doppelpass”. The performance was “not what I would like to see in a referee”. Aytekin should have known “that he was going into a heated game with a history”, “he can’t build up pressure with gestures and facial expressions”.
On the contrary: “You have to have a calming effect on the players. So in this specific case, as a reaction to the double waving off of Raphael Guerreiro and shortly afterwards Dahoud, for which the international had to leave the pitch with a yellow-red: “Then he has to show Guerreiro yellow and not Dahoud, Guerreiro didn’t have a criminal record.” Another referee like Manuel Gräfe would have solved the scene differently: “He would have put his hand on his shoulder and told him to stop complaining. “
“Dahoud’s protest was not exceptionally bad. It’s a reflex. It’s not totally disrespectful. “
HANS-JOACHIM WATZKE
As for Dahoud’s action, which Aytekin had judged to be “disrespectful”. “The more I watch it: Dahoud’s protest was not exceptionally bad now. That’s a reflex. It’s not totally disrespectful.” It would have been different “if he had said ‘you idiot'”.
And with that, Aytekin had a significant influence on the game: “The referee has a responsibility for a game. If you show a yellow card in a close game in the first half, you massively change the statics of the game.” But it is also clear that “the main blame lies with Dahoud. Of course, it was a common foul, but he made a very clear complaint. “
