No one wants to see such a hand penalty

To the rhetorical Toolbox of coaches and footballers is a Phrase that comes often to the application, if a geek wants to win with a defensive strategy. The sentence is: "We want to stand at the back well and the front needle stitches!" – with pinholes-efficient counter-or gates, means: according to the Standards! In the spring of 2019 this sentence is written in the German Bundesliga but unfortunately, on the verge of a formulation of revolution. It might take long until the first coach says: "We want to stand at the back well and the front of a hand-penalty!"

hand penalty is now the word of the year 2019, in Germany. The hand penalty has developed into the biggest scandal of the football presence, and he is even on the bad way to establish yourself as a tactical style. It was not only the legitimate anger speech of the BVB Coach Favre that the current interpretation of the hand rule was the "biggest scandal" and the football do "ridiculous". His Bayern colleague, Kovac whispered, it was almost more rewarding that flanks the Arm of an opponent's meeting as the head of another player.

hand penalty as a training target?

the coach of the table, the third is a quote: Although RB Leipzig benefited least twice a victory bringing of comic hand penalties, said Ralf Rangnick, what many Fans are thinking: that it could not go on like this; that "clear intention" in hand, the core offense again criterion had to be, at best, combined with the question of whether gates rzielung is prevented, because all the other 08/15-hand games to the touch in the box by the penalty spot over the forward by. And also rank nick suggested, it could be part of the training work, how to chippt in the penalty area the opponent the Ball on the Arm.

All of these are Alarm and calls for help, and also the bare Figures show that urgent action is needed: 30 second match there this season already, the statistical average in 56 years in the Bundesliga was 11.7. There were also seasons five, six trade district as a whole – and today? Rather three scenes per round, the debates and whiplash-shake of the head. See currently: Penalty for Dortmund/Schalke against Weigl (worse whistle), and this Saturday bundled: Penalty against Bayern, because Boateng were the elbow (also bad), no Penalty against Berlin volleyball players Rekik (even worse, because it even no one saw) and no Penalty against BVB and Gotze, stopped the Ball with the Arm (fortunately not punished, but in the context of Weigl/Boateng is not traceable).

niece is only a Problem, but four

of Course, this was the topic of a thousand aspects, therefore, an attempt, a couple of things analysis.

Problem A: the rule! For decades it has got to work quite seriously, to make the Hand-over intention, movement and distance to the Ball is a punishable offense – of up to more complicated interpretations of more importance: "large body surface", "Abduction of the arm after the Four-or-Eight-at-rule" (i.e. a criminal offence from 3.59 and 8.01 PM?), "unnatural hand movements" (to balance respect for the player's often a maximum, of course). Therefore, dear Fifa, please, the rule simplify – and maybe not have to think, whether except in the case of sun indirect impact clear Torvereitelung a smarter punishment than the penalty. As it is, are in any case overwhelmed by everyone: players, Fans and referees.

B: whose interpretation of the hand rule! The "consistent and very predictable," said DFB referee-in-chief Cheerful last. The like to feel the Referees, in good conscience, but the real feeling of the audience is: You don't get it anymore, it much to a lot of penalty prevails in decision-making arbitrary and the results are compared with the earlier. A "return to normality in the application of the hand rule" that recommends that the previous whistle Primus Markus Merk. I have nothing to add.

C: is the video proof! The new technology has brought football a lot of Good: Whether or not the Ball is in the goal whether it was Offside – it can now be used to clear 99 percent lens. However, the hand game-the confusion is due to images of sighting more difficult to resolve, because often there is no indisputably correct judgments are possible. On the contrary, The majority of the weird hand penalty was last imposed only by the video cellar-interference. And if, like on Saturday in Berlin, the overlap of the two current main problems – "What Hand?" "What time is does not interfere with the video Ref, what time is it?" – it is pitch black.

A fundamental question would be: Why not look at the referee actually ANY Penalty – regardless of whether it has detected itself, or a message from the video the basement got – again for safety even on the Monitor? So much time must be. And that would be a really transparent process, which excludes, at the least, communication of the margins between turf referee and video the basement (like the other day at the Cup in Bremen, Germany) as a cause of misjudgment.

Video: The scene in Bremen Kingsley Coman comes in the Bremen penalty area and the Bayern gets a controversial Penalty. (Video: SRF)

D: the behavior of the players and coaches! It man may be very understandable, that everyone who receives the Team hard hand penalty, in the sense of perceived justice also own demands. But if, in the meantime, stand in accordance with the uses of wild Snarl, as soon as the Ball touches the fingernail of an opponent, then the hysteria of the Fans and the uncertainty of the referee increases. So: Stop with the silly Claim! Because it goes almost all the way Jérôme Boateng, who has shown on Saturday of the hand rule, a bird: No man who loves football, wants to hand penalty! (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Created: 06.05.2019, 21:04 Uhr