RB Leipzig coach Marco Rose questions DFB over two-match ban for Willi Orban, despite similar incidents being one-match ban.
The German Football Federation (DFB) has reject Leipzig’s appeal against a two-match ban hand to key defender Willi Orban after he has sent off for a foul on Bochum’s Myron Boadu in the opening game.
Rose disagree with the decision, citing the similar red card given to former Dortmund defender Mats Hummels against Leipzig last season, but was only give a one-match suspension.
“We look at a similar incident, the red card given to Mats Hummels in Dortmund’s game against us,”
“We are trying to understand why Willi Orban was bann for two games and Mats Hummels was bann for only one,” the Leipzig coach said.
Orban has already serve a one-match ban for สมัคร ufabet the 3-2 win at Leverkusen and will miss Saturday’s home game at Union Berlin, where Rose will also serve a suspension after being sent off in the game against Leverkusen.
The German Red Bulls felt a suspension for two subsequent fixtures to be too harsh and, as a result, lodged an appeal with the DFB disciplinary arm. The German FA officially confirmed a rejection of a second appeal yesterday. Rose fielded questions from journalists about the ruling at his Thursday pre-match-presser. The 48-year-old brought up BVB defender Mats Hummels’ red card against his team on match-day 14 last December as evidence that standards weren’t being apply uniformly.