No 'scandalous mistakes': DFB dismisses Hoeness criticism
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The German Football Federation (DFB) has dismissed sharp criticism from Bayern Munich honorary president Uli Hoeness on the refereeing in the 1-1 at Bayer Leverkusen where Bayern had two players sent off and two goals disallowed.
Bayern players Nicolas Jackson got a straight red and Luis Diaz had to go after a second booking on Saturday when goals from Jonathan Tah and Harry Kane were disallowed for handball. Leverkusen also had a late goal from Jonas Hofmann disallowed for a narrow offside.
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Referee Christian Dingert said post-match he made a mistake by sending Diaz off for diving while Hoeness had told the Bild paper that it was "the worst refereeing performance I have seen at a Bundesliga match."
But DFB refereeing body spokesman Alexander Feuerherdt told the AZ paper that "we can not confirm" such a view.
"Especially the match relevant decisions were correct or at least justifiable - with the exception of the yellow-red card, which referee Christian Dingert has admitted to himself," Feuerherdt said.
"Perhaps Uli Hoeness' opinion was influenced by the fact that the majority of these match-related decisions went against FC Bayern. But we are certainly not talking about scandalous mistakes here.”