Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic regretted the absence of recourse to video assistance on an action in the Leverkusen penalty area (1-1) Sunday during the 13th day of the German championship, estimating his injured team. In the 73rd minute of this match at the top of the Bundesliga, while Dortmund had been leading for almost 70 minutes (1-0), German international Karim Adeyemi was stopped in the area by Edmond Tapsoba and Exequiel Palacios with a slight contact .
The referee was not called by the video assistance to review the images and the contact. Leverkusen finally snatched a draw six minutes later through Victor Boniface (79th). “We discuss VAR week after week, we discuss clear erroneous decisions, on hands, on contacts, and so on. And today, it’s not enough,” complained Edin Terzic at the microphone of the broadcaster DAZN. “It makes me angry,” he added.
Last season, in the final sprint and the fight with Bayern for the title, Dortmund conceded a draw to Bochum (1-1), with a contentious action involving Adeyemi, which did not result in recourse to VAR. The referee management recognized an error the next day.
“A clear line is missing, when is there a penalty and when not? We talk about VAR all the time, now we have VAR, but who used it? Person. It’s a decisive scene. It was a clear penalty,” he said. “He (Adeyemi) played the action well, he put himself between the two defenders, it’s very difficult for them to defend. We have VAR to review this type of action. And we are told that it is not enough, for me it is the wrong decision,” he concluded.
