Trainer Thomas Rice from the Football Bundesliga club VfL Bochum has no understanding of the red card, which he saw in the defeat at the SC Freiburg (0: 3).

His trouble did not address against the referee team, but his player Konstantinos Stafylidis, explained the 48-year-old after the game.

“I have more excited about my player. We are 0: 3 behind, are completely inferior, do not have so much staff on the position and then you go a very high risk with a foul game in the opposing half,” Rice said.

Stafylidis had seen for a foul on Roland Sallai in the 68th minute red. Thereafter, Bochum’s coach of Refere Sascha Stegemann was sent to the tribune. “I made a wiper, I am too,” Rice said.

“But in the end, I’m disrespectful to my player because I meant my player as he can do something like that.” He has noticed that the fourth official would have received the gesture, so the VFL coach continues. He wanted to explain, but the impartial is no longer embarrassed. After the game, he was looking for the conversation again, reported rice. This was noted in the match report. Now he had to wait if the red card has more consequences for him.

Freiburg’s coach Christian Streich felt his colleague. He would have wished that there had been a de-escalation and maybe a warning for rice, said the 56-year-old. He hopes that the situation could be clarified and nothing.