Football – Anger Weserstadion: Referee Petersen as an enemy image

The evening in the Weser Stadium had started hopefully when Hubertus Hess-Grunewald opened the 20th Bundesliga matchday with a speech against forgetting. The President of SV Werder Bremen first recalled the inglorious role of the almost 126-year-old sports club and football in the Nazi era, then to hit the bridge into the present. It was a contradiction for him to find Werder “and to choose the AfD”. After the applause for his appeal for more common sense in society, the Weser Stadium was as far away from a good politically historical Friday at the end of the encounter between Bremen and FSV Mainz 05 (1-0) on a good cooperation.

Device and self -claim

Two yellow-red cards against Niklas Stark and Marco Friedl in injury time had turned the venue on the Weser into a rage stage, in which even Ole Werner forgot his good nursery. A verbal derailment towards referee Martin Petersen brought the red card to the coach of Werder Bremen after the final whistle. This will lack the Bremern next Friday at Bayern two central defenders and the chief coach.

Werner immediately saw his misconduct. “What I said is not insanely evil, but it is rightly a red card. I can only apologize for this, ”said the 36-year-old and said in his self-accusation that he did not live up to his role:“ It has been a bit accumulated in the past few weeks. But it is still a six minus. That shouldn’t happen to me. It doesn’t work at all. “

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For such a relentless self -reflection, the down -to -earth football teacher is praised. Referee Petersen considered the matter to be done: »They have come words that are wrong. He came into the cabin, apologized to me. ”Werner’s admission could have a mitigating mitigating the DFB sports court, especially since the Werder coach is not a repeat offender. In contrast to the Mainz colleague, who dealt with the fourth yellow card and the second interior lock this year because of a key bale decision. The impulsive Dane was also clear. “This is a total disaster. Of course that’s my mistake, «explained the 49-year-old.

Hard criticism of the referee

For the Werder fans, however, Petersen was the guilty of the escalation-the referee was slipped despite the flood of maps. After the final whistle, “slide, slide” calls echoed from the ranks. In addition, Tiraden from the Bremen professionals came in the cabin gang. “Interviews the referee!” Some called out, who did not want to speak to media representatives out of self -protection.

Bremen’s scorer Leonardo Bittencourt asked the questions – and immediately took out an all -round against the referee team: »They showed an arrogance. Hats off. You have to do it like that without distributing such red cards. I don’t know what they had breakfast. ”The 31-year-old said that it couldn’t be the way. In his view, Werder is “not a team that is doing a lot: with us you can talk reasonably.” The midfielder, who is happy to go to Theatrics on the pitch, displeased the entire attitude if referee would be “inviolable”.

Figure and consequences

But you shouldn’t touch the referees. So overwhelmed, the position against defender, who was said to have turned the ball to a teammate in the event of a throw -in with the passage of the ball, the dismissal against the already warned captain Friedl was so understandable. “The player Friedl runs after me and touched my back several times, I found that inappropriate«, Referee Petersen explained his view. Ergo, the real estate merchant pulled out of the Swabia traffic light card number two – and became the number one enemy image on the Osterdeich, where the minds only calmed down.

The locks against Stark and Friedl, who is now out “until further notice” because of an inner ligament strain, injuries at Bittencourt and Anthony Jung as the third member of the triple chain make it difficult for the north-south classic at FC Bayern. Werner was completely with him again when he combined the consequences factually: »The failures are very, very annoying. That will be more of the size of the task. ”Especially since the man, who himself showed size despite a dropout, will only sit in Munich in the grandstand instead of on the coaching bench.