Coach Niko Kovac from VfL Wolfsburg criticized the handball interpretation in football after the 1: 2 at Werder Bremen. "Perhaps we should practice shooting at the opponent's hand in the penalty area. So no longer looking for your own team-mate, just a hand that's dangling somewhere. Because then there's a lot of penalties," said the 51- year-olds in a Sky interview.

The background to his criticism: Bremen had been awarded a hand penalty when the score was 0-0 because Wolfsburg's Yannick Gerhardt had received the ball in the penalty area from a short distance on his hand, which was only slightly spread out. Referee Daniel Siebert initially allowed the game to continue, but corrected his decision after using the video evidence. "That's exactly the problem with the whole story: handball is not always handball," said Kovac. "No one can tell me that it was an enlargement of the body surface or that it was intentional."

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