Penalty for Bayern, but not for BVB: After the top match, referee Felix Zwayer was the centre of attention – Marco Reus asked the crucial question.
That this match was not really over with the final whistle was surely already known to Felix Zwayer when he ended the ten-minute injury time: Immediately, the referee was surrounded by numerous BVB supporters. In a top match with numerous leading actors, the one who did not want to take on a leading role took centre stage.
Because Zwayer awarded FC Bayern a penalty after VAR intervention but denied one to Dortmund, emotions ran high – even after the final whistle (for example with coach Marco Rose). Why did the video assistant Tobias Welz intervene when Mats Hummels cleared with his elbow (74th), but not when Lucas Hernandez brought down Marco Reus in the penalty area (53rd)?
It was the question on the minds of everyone involved with BVB after the 2:3 defeat. Marco Reus thought the penalty for Bayern, a “50:50 situation”, was already “tough”. But: “What upsets me even more,” he added on “Sky”: “I then asked him: ‘But my penalty scene was also 50:50, why don’t you watch that too?’ So he said: ‘It was just a bit of upper body.’ So I said: ‘At least you can watch it.'”
Can: “In the past, unfortunately, a bit too often for Bayern “
But this was the first time Reus himself had done so and he was stunned. “Oh, my God,” he said as he looked back at Hernandez’s tackle on him, “oh yes. In the game I didn’t think it was that clear, but when I see it like that, at least he has to look at it. In the game I didn’t see it so blatantly. “
Emre Can revealed that Zwayer had initially classified Hummels’ arm position in the game as “natural”, but was then still convinced otherwise. “It’s a shame that a crap penalty like that decides the game,” said the BVB defender, scenting a Bayern bonus: “Unfortunately, that was a bit too often for Bayern in the past. That simply can’t happen because we have so many referees.”
While Thomas Müller could “already understand a bit” Zwayer in both scenes, Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann even found Hummels’ handball “indisputable. “
