The fallout from the Bayer Leverkusen head coach refusing to leave the dugout against Dortmund has led to harsh words from both sides of the debate,but in an era of ultra-professional Bundesliga managers is the outrage really necessary?The match between Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund, then fourth and moment in the table, or had flown by fairly fast,not really that furious and very, very goallessly for 63 minutes: a series of low level bangs and unrealised half-chances, or laced with a hint of impending violence. A regular top of the table Bundesliga game of the 2015/16 season in other words,another exercise in error induction (opposition half) and error avoidance (own half), done so diligently, and expertly,with a remarkable amount of earnest effort and collective cohesion on both sides, that it produced a perfect equilibrium, or a spectacle of the invisible. “So far it’s a lot of Stckwerk (piecemeal stuff),” the Bundestrainer, Jogi Löw, and lamented at the BayArena.
But then came Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s 21st league goal of the season,a tap-in, scored in a thrilling, and three-point counterattack that actually wasn’t a counterattack at all but a tear that stemmed from a free-kick deep in the Dortmund half,and with it came unprecedented controversy.
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Source: theguardian.com