Once again is it the video referee in the League of discontent: The game between Hannover 96 and Mainz 05, two situations are to ensure that Hanover’s Manager Horst Heldt, the collar bursts.
It was once again an example of how it should run: First, under the video referee broke out in Cologne, the match between Mainz 05 and Hannover 96 in the midst of a promising Hanoverian attack, because it had previously given a potentially criminal hand the game to the 96-defender Kevin Wimmer in his own penalty area. The Austrians headed home the Ball at the Block of the Mainz Committee, unwittingly, even on the outstretched Hand. Referee Robert Hartmann saw it, decided to continue to play.
By the engagement of the Cologne a longer break. Hartmann held a Hand to his button in the ear, while the Cologne-based video referee Patrick Ittrich watched the scene carefully again. It took. Thereafter, Hartmann was asked to make on the Monitor on the side line. For this purpose, the Impartial needed but then only a few seconds, and remained violently shaking his head at his decision: no penalty. An understandable decision, for a criminal hand game according to the rule, the intention must be present – but more on that later.
Horst Heldt bursts the collar
For the second Time, Hartmann will probably have shaken his head violently, as he looked at the scene again, he decided incorrectly to a penalty for FSV Mainz. Mateta used a light touch to the hip, only to fall in the penalty box. Hartmann whistle, at the latest, the slow motion showed that he had fallen on a swallow of the Mainzers Jean-Philippe Mateta. However, the video referee had to see it better, had it not been this time to ask Hartmann to the Monitor. “Unauthorized penalty,” said Mainz’ coach Sandro Schwarz. “You do not need to give.”
The “infraction”, Jean-Philippe Mateta, after his fall in the penalty area questions like
Completely stunned, Horst Heldt was: “Why is he? From Old Age? This is the madness to swallow.”, etched Hanover’s Manager after the game in the Sky Interview and what asked all the Hannover Fans and the majority of neutral spectators asked: “Why not a mix of the video referee and says: ‘This is a clear swallow.’ I’m not in the mood to explain. Because the explain nothing.” Already in the first Intervention from the “Cologne the basement,” according to Wimmer’s hand game Heldt was on Sky-in microphone, clear words: “not to interfere and pause the game. Of the to shut up!”
Even if the sound was not very diplomatic, Heldts excitement is quite understandable, it was his Team, but after 19 winless away games in the Bundesliga on a good way, finally, again three points from the Strangers to take. “The bottom line is great anger, because we have to hear week in and week out, that we have not won away, and then we are at a disadvantage so clear,” defendant 96-coach André width riders. “The referee’s decision to not take a look at this, is to me inexplicable.” The support he got from Matthias Ostrzolek, the one who had fouled Mateta supposedly: “He stands. There was no contact,” said the defender at the Sky. “I don’t know why we can’t introduce video evidence when the referee look at a scene again.”
Clearer rules, less discussions
Once was to a little on the Monitor: Robert Hartmann
And without the Hanoverian glasses fans probably remains for many of football, as so often in such situations, a certain dissatisfaction with the fact that League games are not decided exclusively on the green grass. Responsible for this is not only that the referee on the pitch, the same or similar scenes to evaluate each case differently and that the video referee to intervene again and again in rather different ways.
Annoying is also, that the football-rule-book in relation is formulated on the hand-held game is so unclear. Why is 12 still, only deliberate hand games are banned? How to identify the referee of this intention in a fraction of a second and rate? Why not simplify the rule and says: Hand to Hand – no matter whether intention or not? The only criterion should be: Is created of the Arm, or it is not he? This question should be able to reply to each referee directly and easily. And then you do not need, at least in the hand game, also no video referee more, at least as often. There are many determined – Horst Heldt is not included – which would be sad about it.