Werder Bremen makes a mistake against FC Augsburg – Essende prepares a double

At Duksch’s Schwalbe, I really thought the red card would stay. Aside from offside situations, I simply have no confidence in VAR. Fortunately, to my surprise, the red card was withdrawn. If there had been yellow for the swallow, the whole thing would have been perfectly rounded. But you can’t have everything and in Schwalben, the referees only decide when they want to remove the card based on their mood.

A little later, VAR did things again from VAR and confirmed the lack of confidence. I don’t understand why there was no penalty for Bremen. Of course, there was probably no great intention and Augsburg is involved in a duel, but in the end the arm is spread in this position when one wants to bring the ball down with the chest. If the ball falls only on the arm and does not touch any other part of the body, then it is clearly handball.

Basically, when it comes to punishment, I often think that the relationship between offense and punishment is not appropriate. It was a safe situation, and then converting it to a penalty, which I think happens over 80% of the time, so it’s basically a safe goal, I don’t think it’s appropriate. But that’s another discussion.

In this case there should have been a penalty and when we see other HE, we wonder if the SR and VAR roll the dice at the whistle and when not. I know this is a very complex topic, but I found this situation relatively easy to assess.

Otherwise, Bremen played pretty well, the ball moved well, but the last pass or finish was still missing, except for the shot against the post. Defensively, the goals conceded were quite soft and the goals conceded were very cheap. The bottom line is that it’s neither fish nor meat if you have neither a strong defense nor a strong offense with the last punch. I think Bremen’s strengths lie more in the offensive, but today there was too little creativity and it was then relatively easy for Augsburg to carry out their game plan.