Bundesliga: And once more the video proof ensures shake of the top | EUROtoday

The common tetter didn’t materialize. The fouled Bremer Issa Kaboré didn’t complain to the referee and Gladbach’s Lukas Ulrich additionally accepted Timo Gerarch’s determination. The Werder followers within the stadium had been additionally not upset and demanded a penalty. Everything indications that Gerarch was appropriate within the 2: 4 defeat by Werder Bremen in opposition to Borussia Mönchengladbach shortly earlier than half-time.

But there was a person who clearly noticed it in a different way. Videos referee Jan Seidel spoke up very a lot to be amazed on the gamers and spectators. In the stadium everybody thought that he was noticeable due to a supposed handball. But after a number of exams, Seidel desires to see that Ulrich pushed the Bremen Kaboré on the penalty space line and thus fouled them in a penalty. The TV photos couldn’t clearly make clear whether or not the foul handed on the road or exterior the penalty space. But the VAR neglected the neutral on the pitch, there was a penalty for Werder, which André Silva sank to 2-2.

Once once more, the video referee intervened in a state of affairs during which clearly no clear mistake by the referee was on the garden. The former FIFA referee Hellmut Krug observes the event of the Var with concern. In his opinion, the video proof moved an excessive amount of from its unique thought in implementation.

The declare held within the protocol of David Elleray, the related developer of the VAR, solely intervene within the occasion of a transparent and apparent mistake, “unfortunately it was not consistently implemented,” stated Krug within the interview of the journal “11 friends”: “Instead, the VAR is often too active, almost hyperactive. The intervention threshold is too low, the VAR would have to act much more reserved. “

Since the start of the second half of the season, Krug has seen “an improvement”: “The referees no longer appear as strange, they show more initiative and decide again more often, the VAR reports much more reserved than before.” Situations like in Bremen are clear setbacks on this growth.