The Video assistant will show to the League kick-off still some weaknesses. But DW editor Tobias Oelmaier doubt anyway in General, its meaning and purpose, because the gray areas move.
Finally justice in football! What could not afford a main referee, two side lines wizard, a “Fourth Official” and a year ago introduced goal-line technology, will now provide the Video wizard. Equipped with slow-motion and virtual offside lines, he is from the Central office in Cologne, in the tricky game of the decisive scenes of his final judgment.
Now the Video-Assi has seen his Bundesliga Premiere. The same for the season opener on Friday night between Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen, he came. It is the 52. Minute, Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski came in the penalty area. The whistle of the referee Tobias Stieler was at first, but with the right forefinger of the Impartial went to the ear – a Short conference with the wizard in the distance. The revealed: a penalty, because Lewandowski had been knocked down.
“These are exactly the situations,” Stieler said later, “in which the video assistant can help to make football fairer.” True. Only a quarter of an hour later, but the picture proof is pushed to its limits. Bavaria’s Joshua Kimmich dribbled the outer line along, Karim Bellarabi jumped him with open sole in the knee. A Red card would have been the only right decision, Bellarabi, but the criminal was completely free. Why was the Video wizard is here only to mute? Justice looks differently!
Bumpy Start
On Saturday, it then also came to some technical problems, so with three games first of all, no outside help was possible, in the meetings between Hoffenheim and Bremen, as well as between Berlin and Stuttgart, it worked all the same in the second half, even if only in part. It was not calibrated line for Offside decisions, as also previously at Bayern and Leverkusen, which is why service providers Hawkeye corners had a ticking off from the DFL once.
DW-editor Tobias Oelmaier
This may still fall under children’s diseases, it will be much more difficult to answer some fundamental questions. For example, who is The field referee, initiates contact with whom: with the Supervisor in Köln or Vice-versa? And when the Video wizard at all to intervene.
So far, it is provided that he is in scenes where it is the rule of conformity of goals, penalties, place, point, or game confusion. But how far one goes back, for example in the development of goals,? A quickly taken free-kick on the penalty area, initiating a counter attack? In the case of the wrongly-given corner? In the case of a non-compliant throw-in, the will to assist?
Or not even a free kick 17 yards from goal, can be a decisive game? A non-geahnetes rude Foul in the 5. Minute, when the opponent actually now decimated?
Where is the limit?
You want maximum justice, you would almost ask, any decision. With opposition, with Revision, with the interim injunction. Referee dared to whistle out of fear of wrong decisions. Line judge to lift eh hardly the Flag. An erroneous offside whistle is no second Chance on a counterattack.
Now the Top European leagues have decided, for sure, for good reasons, for the Video wizard. Absolute justice there is, nevertheless, grey areas remain. You move just a little. This is necessarily also to resolve the technical teething problems lead to displeasure. In the case of Fans, players, coaches and Official. And last but not least to the referees themselves. What one should not forget: football is a Sport of people with people for people. And the make error. This is part of the game. There is no Video wizard helps. You can safely save!
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