23/3/2023–|Last updated: 3/23/202307:56 PM (Makkah Al-Mukarramah)
A match in the German League witnessed remarkable and unprecedented events, as video technology (the mouse) intervened to save a player from being warned (yellow card) twice, to get each time a penalty kick, which resulted in a valuable victory for his club.
The Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich match entered history, not only for Leverkusen to achieve a valuable victory over “Bayern” and deny it the top spot in the league, but for the remarkable and influential presence of the mouse technique, in two incidents in which the referee’s decision turned from warning a player to giving him two penalties that gifted victory to his team.
The hero of the two incidents was the player “Amin Adly”, as the referee of the match, “Tobias Steiler”, believed both times that he had acted and claimed to have fallen inside the Bayern penalty area without interference from the opponent in order to obtain a penalty kick, to show him the yellow card in both times.
And every time, and with the player’s objection, “Steller” went to the mouse technique to review the incident, cancel the warning, and award “Leverkusen” two penalty kicks, through which he achieved his valuable victory, as it was remarkable that the referee was keen to apologize every time, in the first of them he initiated a handshake with Adly, while the second was The French player hugged him.
After the match, the referee commented, “Twice the mistake happened, and we quickly made the right decision.. Both times the same player, in the same position. For me it was sad, but in the end we made the right decision.”
Bold and unwavering
The match, which ended with the victory of “Leverkusen” with two goals to one, its remarkable course met with the interactions of two tweeters, and the “Shababat” program (3/23/2023) monitored a part of it, including the “tweeter Mohsen” considering that the referee was “catastrophic” by relying on the mouse technique. In the match, which most of the interactors disagreed with.
Where, Tarbak Walid tweeted, “What happened in this match confirms the need to use the mouse,” so when Atef Abdel Hamid considered that the referee was “bold and heroic, without fear, hesitation, or thought, even from the prestige of the Bayern Munich team, nor from the press and media. I wish they would learn.”
Muhammad, who in turn tweeted, agreed with him, “I wish the referees in our league would be as brave as him.” For his part, Nasrawi expected that “if the same player settled it a third time, he would count it for him as a (penalty) at length without returning to the mouse.”
The comment of the “Bayern” coach, Julian Nagelsmann, came to confirm the validity of the referee’s decisions following he returned to the mouse, as he said, “For me, the matter was clear. The first time I thought that the player stumbled or he would not fall, but in the second it was clear, and it seemed that the two penalties were correct.” .
Nagelsmann added, “Of course, I will not oppose the mouse’s decision or cancel the yellow cards. The two penalties were bitter for us, but (their decisions) are right.”
