Augsburg’s Sandro Wagner rails against Bayern Munich and Sacha Boey after nasty aerial foul | OneFootball

FC Augsburg head coach Sandro Wagner remained proud of his team’s performance against Bayern Munich on Saturday. Wagner’s Fuggerstädter battled back from a 0-3 deficit to ultimately lose 2-3 to the German record champions in the Bundesliga’s Saturday evening “Top-Spiel“. Wagner offered up plenty of positive analysis whilst speaking at the post match press conference.

“After so many years in football, it’s sometimes difficult to feel pride,” Wagner said. “But today I was very proud of the team. I’ve met this group of people eight weeks ago and, together, we all declared that we were going on a collective journey. That journey continued with a wonderful evening tonight.

“It’s just that the result is a catastrophe,” Wagner nevertheless continued. “We wanted to win and that really aggravates me. That’s total shit.

“[But] when Harry Kane is defending as a left back at the start of the second half, it’s a clear sign that one is doing something right,” Wagner concluded.

Wagner hadn’t quite calmed down after a nasty aerial collision at 90+6 put FCA starter Robin Fellhauer in the hospital. The new summer signing suffered a bad concussion. Bayern challenger Sacha Boey was booked for his role in the duel, even if it didn’t appear as if Boey rattled Fellhauer’s skull deliberately

“Those of us who have played the game know what that’s about,” Wagner told Sky Germany shortly after the full-time-whistle. “It was a brutal foul, but I’m naturally not accusing him of full intent.

“The only thing I accuse him of is walking away too cooly,” Wagner continued. “Too cool for the world. One apologizes immediately, and not after one first notices that the young man can’t move.“

Wagner extended his criticism to the Bayern bench. Some on the FCB sidelines immediately shot up to protest the referee’s ruling when they saw match official Florian Exner reaching for his book. Wagner felt the knee-jerk reaction to be in poor taste.

“One or two people on the Bayern bench should have flipped their neural switches a little earlier,” Wagner said. “You just don’t do that. Bayern or no. It doesn’t matter. I’ve committed a lot of fouls in my career, but you go over and say ‘sorry’. That’s what you do.“

GGFN | Peter Weis