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St. Gallen coach Peter Zeidler fights with fate after 0: 1 against AEK Athens, which is both the beginning and the end of the European Cup green and white tour. The German: “Lugano was third in the championship last season, then he had six games in the Europa League, we were second, but now we only had one game.”
Decisive for the end of European dreams (Zeidler: “We wanted the game against Wolfsburg next week!”) It was a scene from minute 70: Espen-Greek Leonidas Stergiou wins the duel against Nelson Oliveira despite being behind . The only 18-year-old Stergiou pushes the Portuguese aside, spitting the ball at his foot. The forward then stumbles without any influence from Stergiou. At this point, Espen’s goalkeeper, Zigi, has already left. Even the Nigerian does not touch Oliveira.
The Spanish referee Alejandro Hernández sees it differently: Penalty! And because Uefa doesn’t use a VAR, this wrong decision is not overridden. Oliveira shoots, Zigi holds, the Portuguese hits in pursuit.
“A penalty is when the referee whistles …”
The end of the FCSG. Zeidler turns yellow after the end of the game, his vice-captain Lukas Görtler yellow-red. Both for complaining. War sanction or not, Mr. Zeidler? “A penalty is when the referee whistles … But it would be interesting what the VAR would have said about it.”
Why did you get yellow cards after the final whistle? Zeidler: “I asked what was the reason for the sanction. He said there were two reasons. That can not be. Zigi is sure to be completely unconscious. And Leo says it’s not a shame. It’s a shame, we deserved the penalty shoot-out. Solo: We also had a scene like that, alone in front of the door. It’s bad that everything ended so quickly. “
And at the end of the press conference, Zeidler said shortly after 11pm: “Please don’t blame the referee for not being there next week, even if it was of course the decisive scene.”
