FC Bayern: Nagelsmann finds Matthäus

Julian Nagelsmann supports the proposal that ex-professionals could support the video referee. "Basically, it's not a bad idea," said the coach of the German football champion.

"It would be important that the professional is also impartial and not played for the club for 15 years and his heart still has there." It is "always advisable to have done the Leipzig Nordi," said Nagelsmann.

On Saturday, the role of video assistant in the Bundesliga once again provided criticism. In the top game between FC Bayern and Borussia Dortmund (3-1), he did not intervene against BVB professional Jude Bellingham after a foul by Benjamin Pavard.

In the 2-1 win of 1. FC Union at RB Leipzig, however, the video assistant reported a kick from Leipzig's Nordi Mukiele against the Berlin Niko Gießelmann, but the referee did not revise his decision. Video evidence project manager Jochen Drees said in a DFB announcement on Monday that in both cases it had been wrongly decided.

Record national player Lothar Matthäus recently emphasized the old proposal that former professional footballers could be used as support.

"We as a former footballer can rate this better because we were permanently and for years in these situations and know what it looks like when you are foul or fouled. How to fall where the ball moves when this or that is Completed. And above all we see it faster, "Matthew wrote in a" Sky "column. In such cases, the intuition of ex-footballers is different.