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Leverkusen’s CEO Fernando Carro was actually livid after the ultimate whistle of yesterday’s match between the Werkself and Mainz. A lot so, actually, that he couldn’t resist asking within the corridors after the sport, in entrance of quite a few bystanders: “The place is Stieler, that fool?”

He was reportedly on his option to the referee’s dressing room to get a proof from Tobias Stieler himself a couple of very particular scene within the match. That is based on ‘kicker’.

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The scenario in query occurred simply earlier than the guests from Mainz took the lead. Dominik Kohr wrapped each arms round Leverkusen’s striker Patrik Schick within the penalty space. From the angle of many Bayer followers and even impartial observers, a penalty would have been the one logical consequence. Nevertheless, Stieler’s whistle remained silent, and as an alternative the 05ers took the lead on the counterattack (45.+4).

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After his clarifying dialog with “fool” Stieler, Carro defined to the media, based on the ‘kicker’ report, that for him it was a “clear penalty,” however finally he did defend the referee. He mentioned Stieler could have had a poor view of the scene, however the VAR ought to have penalized the foul, Carro added.

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Why didn’t that occur? In line with the Spaniard, Stieler defined to him that it was 50:50, a mutual tussle. That’s why the assistants within the VAR room didn’t intervene both.

In line with the report, Carro’s personal group didn’t fare a lot better in his evaluation. On his method via the corridors, he cursed in Spanish (particularly, he mentioned based on his personal account that Leverkusen wanted to “get up” in Spanish) and commented accordingly on the Werkself’s efficiency, who no less than managed to equalize late in stoppage time and thus restricted the harm: “We didn’t put in efficiency, particularly within the first half.”

If he had been within the dressing room, he would flip out, Carro added.

We expect we will take him at his phrase on that.

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At the least: Anybody who had a foul day yesterday can now say with close to certainty: The Leverkusen CEO’s was even worse.

This text was translated into English by Synthetic Intelligence.