In the morning after the mistake in the DFB Cup, Mark van Bommel was in charge of training at VfL Wolfsburg as usual.

The regulars ran a little, the substitutes trained.

Whether the Bundesliga club can move into the second round after its 3-1 win after extra time at Preußen Münster is no longer up to him.

That depends first of all on the regional league club from Münster and the question of whether he will protest against the valuation of the Sunday game.

Nothing else is expected in Wolfsburg.

And then, in the end, the sports court of the German Football Association has to decide who is responsible for the illegal substitution of a sixth VfL player in the 103rd minute: The referee - that would mean a repeat of the game.

Or - which is much more obvious - the Wolfsburgers.

Then they would lose this game afterwards.

Regardless of the sports legal outcome of the case, this change error will stick with van Bommel one way or another.

The new coach of VfL has made the fateful substitution of the Swiss Admir Mehmedi for Maximilian Philipp.

Just asking the fourth official whether he is still allowed to do this or not shows that no one in the lush staff of the Champions League participant knew the DFB's implementation regulations, in which paragraph 31 differs from the EM or the Olympic Football tournament expressly means: “During the game, five players may be exchanged.

An additional substitution going beyond this in games with overtime is not permitted. "

Cup from 2004 at the Green Table

The long-time FC Bayern player - that much is also clear - made a false start in Wolfsburg even before the first Bundesliga game against VfL Bochum on Saturday.

“Van Bommel and VfL: A deep scratch,” commented the specialist magazine “Kicker” on Monday.

Such a mistake costs authority from the players and, in the worst case, support from the parent company VW.

In 2004 VfL retired from the DFB Cup at the Green Table.

The Lower Saxony used their newcomer Marian Hristov, although he was still banned after a red card for his former club 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

Two days later, the manager Peter Pander resigned after a conversation with the VW board of directors and VfL supervisory board Lothar Sander after 13 years in office.

Van Bommel has only been in Wolfsburg for six weeks, but his starting conditions were very difficult even before the cup game in Münster. VfL lost five of their six preparation games. The problems are initially the same as those of Julian Nagelsmann at FC Bayern or Gerardo Seoane at Bayer Leverkusen: Due to the many tournaments this summer, many national players start training at different times at different fitness levels.

In Wolfsburg, there is also something else: Van Bommel's predecessor Oliver Glasner has successfully instilled in the team a style of play in the past two years that was based on a compact defense, a strong physique and fast, straightforward counterattacks.

Van Bommel's goal is to use Glasner football as a foundation and to expand it to include ball possession and short-pass football.

The impression of the pre-season and the cup game in Münster is that the old qualities are currently blurred and the new ones are not yet visible.

“What we showed today was just not good.

It has to get better, ”said goal scorer Wout Weghorst.

It just takes time to internalize the new way of playing.