“Football is a contact sport”: Gladbach’s massive anger over the controversial Bayern penalty | EUROtoday

The cross got here completely. Rocc Reitz hit the ball from the appropriate facet into Bayern’s penalty space over the top of Munich central defender Eric Dier and onto the second submit. Borussia Mönchengladbach’s striker Tim Kleindienst was utterly free there. He went for the header and put the ball simply over the crossbar. It was Gladbach’s finest likelihood in opposition to Bayern, who gained 1-0 at Borussia due to a penalty.

After the sport, Kleindienst struggled with the missed alternative and judged himself harshly. That’s really a certain aim, I’ve to make the header. I attempted to go in opposition to Manuel Neuer’s course, however I had to make use of all the pieces I needed to head the ball over his hand on the close to submit. That’s simply silly, you do not get many possibilities like that in opposition to Bayern, and when you’ve got them, it’s important to attempt to take them. In the top it’s a disgrace that you just lose 1-0 due to a silly penalty,” stated Kleindienst on Sky.

The nationwide participant was much more irritated concerning the penalty for Bayern than about his missed likelihood. Referee Felix Zwayer selected a penalty after intervention by the video referee after Gladbach’s Lukas Ullrich simply hit Michael Olise within the penalty space. A controversial choice. “If that is a penalty, then there are 24 penalties per game. Football is just a contact sport. “I sometimes had the feeling that the referee was being guided,” stated Kleindienst.

Harry Kane safely transformed the penalty within the 68th minute. It was the twenty sixth penalty that the Englishman sank into the aim in a row.

“My benchmark is always me when I’m a referee. I wouldn’t have whistled that, it wasn’t enough. There were what felt like 200 thrilling duels on the pitch today and then you get a penalty that was a fraction of the other duels. “That’s extremely annoying,” stated Gladbach coach Gerardo Seoane.

“The mentality was very good, we are happy with the 1-0 win, even though we could have scored more goals. I don’t want to discuss the penalty situation. When you spend so much time in the penalty area, sometimes something happens,” stated Bayern coach Vincent Kompany.