A goal after 97 seconds in the last 16 of the Champions League, a dream start against Real Madrid - but Benjamin Sesko's goal for RB Leipzig did not count. Much to the incomprehension of sporting director Rouven Schröder. "I don't know what we did to not get the goal, it was a bad decision. It would have been a completely different game if it had been 1-0," the 48-year-old grumbled.
The referee team from Bosnia-Herzegovina led by Irfan Peljto ruled the scene offside and was not corrected by video referee Pol van Boekel from the Netherlands. Sesko's header was not offside - and Benjamin Henrichs behind goalkeeper Andrij Lunin was not involved. Coach Marco Rose said after the 1-0 defeat on Tuesday evening: "I don't know what was whistled, it wasn't offside, it wasn't a foul."
The 47-year-old nevertheless "didn't want to make a refereeing story out of it". What was more important to him was insight. "If he looks at it, then he admits the mistake. If he makes it, then I'm fine with it. I make mistakes too, sometimes two or three a day. The important thing is to own up to it."
