Marco Friedl will miss SV Werder Bremen in the next two games. The DFB sports court did not change its verdict.

Clemens Fritz, head of professional football and scouting at SVW, only announced on Tuesday that the green-whites want to take action against Marco Friedl's penalty. The defender had seen the red card against SC Freiburg after a controversial foul game - his offense had been rated as an emergency brake by referee Bastian Dankert.

"We hope that we can reduce it to one game," said Fritz, who argued that Friedl's foul against Michael Gregoritsch was by no means clear, but rather a "scramble between the two players".

However, SV Werder's hopes were in vain: On Wednesday, the DFB announced and confirmed that Friedl would have to pause for two games. According to kicker information, one of the fatalities for the Austrian was that the Freiburg free kick after his red card went into the Bremen wall - if Vincenzo Grifo had scored a goal in the attempt, that could have had a mitigating effect on the penalty. The suspension remains pass: Friedl is missing Werder against Hertha and Schalke.

This article was originally published on 90min.com/de as Werder Hoffnung unsuccessful: Friedl lock remains in place.