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TSG and SGE share points in goalless draw
Personnel and tactics:
The coaching team had to make one last-minute change to the team that started in the victory against Köln. Sebastian Rudy had to withdraw from the squad with a bruised rib and was replaced in midfield by Lukas Rupp. Kevin Vogt, Niklas Süle and Benjamin Hübner started in a back-three in front of Oliver Baumann. Captain Eugen Polanski played alongside Rupp in the centre of the park. Pavel Kaderabek and Jeremy Toljan took to the wide positions with Nadiem Amiri starting just behind strikers Andrej Kramaric and Sandro Wagner. Pirmin Schwegler was back in the squad for the first time since picking up his injury. Sitting with him on the bench was Mark Uth, Ermin Bicakcic, Steven Zuber, Alexander Stolz, Baris Atik and Adam Szalai.
TSG made their first change after the hour mark as Kramaric made way for Mark Uth. Nagelsmann then strengthened his attack with a quarter of an hour remaining, bringing on Steven Zuber for Kaderabek and Pirmin Schwegler made his comeback with five minutes to go, replacing Polanski.
Moment of the match:
There is not just one moment, there were several incidents in this encounter, and there was always one person right in the middle of it: referee Christian Dingert. The game was tough, aggressive and was often held up. Bookings, cards? There were none during the first 45 minutes, but there should have been. First, Fabian slid into Baumann, then Wagner took an elbow to the face from Abraham, while at the beginning of the second half, Seferovic and Amiri had their heads together after a challenge. The referee should have shown a yellow in all of these situations. He then got out his cards in the second half, with several yellow cards and a red card being shown.
Number of the match: 8+1
There were already enough incidents in the first half that warranted a card. Referee Dingert refused to go into his pocket, only to show them en masse after the break. He distributed eight yellow cards and one red.
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