The German Federation decides on the 12-player crisis in the Bayern Munich and Freiburg match
The Sports Court of the German Football Association rejected the appeal submitted by Freiburg, which demanded that it was a winner over the defending champion and leader, Bayern Munich, against the background of the presence of 12 players from the Bavarian club for nearly 20 seconds during their league match last weekend.
On Monday, Freiburg submitted its appeal to the German federation to object to the error in the substitutions during the match that they lost 1-4, which made Bayern threatened to lose the three points.
Because of confusion in the substitutions during the last minutes of last Saturday's match in the twenty-eighth stage, Freiburg found himself for nearly 20 seconds against 12 players from the Bavarian club.
The match was stopped after discovering a mistake made by Bayern in order to correct the matter.
Experts expected that this error could cause Bayern to lose the match and the three points by an administrative decision.
Five minutes before the end, Austrian Marcel Sabitzer and Niklas Zule entered the field as substitutes for French Kingsley Koeman and Corentin Tolisso, but Koeman remained on the field.
It later emerged that the error occurred by the fourth official and the substitution official in the Bavarian club, as the first raised on the electronic board the number 29, which was not originally among the Bayern squad numbers, instead of the number 11 of the Frenchman.
Freiburg, who is in fifth place, only three points behind the last fourth qualifying place for the Champions League, which is occupied by Leipzig, did not want to miss the opportunity to grab the three points, so he decided to resume the loss "after intense discussions at various levels and a legal review," according to the statement issued Monday.
He believed that he found himself in a "dilemma for which he is not responsible," justifying the appeal's decision by wanting to create a "legal guarantee for similar cases" in the future.
Six stages before the end of the German League, Bayern, after refusing the appeal, remained at the top with 66 points, nine points ahead of its second rival, Borussia Dortmund (57 points).
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