Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann is so upset after the defeat at Borussia Mönchengladbach that he storms into the referee’s cabin. He also scolds Tobias Welz badly. He takes the discussion, which was “emotional from one side”, but very calmly.
Referee Tobias Welz does not want to deal with the verbal attack by coach Julian Nagelsmann from FC Bayern Munich. “I didn’t notice it in any way,” he said in the “double pass” at Sport1. “If nobody speaks to me directly, I don’t feel addressed either. That’s why it doesn’t matter to me. Next time we will shake hands and behave normally.”
The German Football Association announced the day after that it had started investigations against the coach. The coach will be asked for a statement from the control committee at the beginning of the coming week. He is threatened with punishment by the DFB sports court.
After the final whistle, Nagelsmann stormed into the referee’s cabin, before and afterward he audibly cursed the referees. When asked in the interview by ZDF and Sport1 that he should have said “softened pack”, Nagelsmann said: “Yes, but I don’t always mean the referees.”
The discussion with Nagelsmann in the dressing room “had taken place among men on an equal footing,” said Welz the day after. Although she was “emotionally guided by one side”: “But there were no insults. Everything was fine the way it went.” Otherwise, the following applies: “What was in the cabin stays in the cabin.”
Welz defended himself because of the red card against Bayern’s Dayot Upamecano, which triggered the discussion. Gladbach’s Alassane Pléa was “off balance” due to the contact on the shoulder. It is “understandable and completely okay that there are different opinions,” said the Wiesbadener.
Welz also justified not rewatching the scene himself on screen. “Of course, that has nothing to do with arrogance. We coordinated, we worked carefully,” he said. “The video assistant checked this for a long time. The VAR could not have given me any other pictures and new insights. That was a gray area decision and therefore absolutely nothing for the video assistant.”
