The beauty of football is that there's always something new happening. Anyone who thought they had seen it all was proven wrong in today's Bundesliga match between 1. FC Köln and VfB Stuttgart. To th...
The beauty of football is that there's always something new happening. Anyone who thought they had seen it all was proven wrong in today's Bundesliga match between 1. FC Köln and VfB Stuttgart.
To the surprise of almost everyone involved, referee Matthias Jöllenbeck awarded a penalty for a foul in the 28th minute.
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The curious thing: The Stuttgart player Ermedin Demirovic, who was illegally stopped, didn't even fall. FC goalkeeper Marvin Schwäbe had previously lost control of the ball in the Cologne penalty area, and in an attempt to clear the ball away from Demirovic with a slide tackle, he hit the attacker on the Achilles tendon.
Undeterred, the fouled player continued to chase the ball, but a video review later awarded a penalty, which Demirovic used to equalize 1-1.
What do you think? Is that a penalty?
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