👀 Horror tackle after two minutes: Werder star sees straight red | OneFootball

Not even five minutes had been played when VAR official Sören Storks called the referee over to the monitor for the first time. As the video footage showed, with good reason. 

Werder’s Sugawara needlessly planted his studs into the calf of Hoffenheim’s Bazoumana Touré with a straight leg. The referee’s decision was therefore the logical one: an early red card for the Japanese player. 

Although Werder are all but mathematically safe, going down to ten men so early still hurts. On the one hand, there is still the hypothetical possibility of being dragged back into trouble; on the other, a final away win to end the season would certainly have been a fitting way to make peace with the fans, who have had few highlights to celebrate this campaign. 

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