🤯 Player stays on his feet: bizarre phantom penalty in the Bundesliga | OneFootball

The beauty of football is that there's always something new happening. Anyone who thought they had seen it all was proven wrong in today's Bundesliga match between 1. FC Köln and VfB Stuttgart.

To the surprise of almost everyone involved, referee Matthias Jöllenbeck awarded a penalty for a foul in the 28th minute.

The curious thing: The Stuttgart player Ermedin Demirovic, who was stopped illegally, didn't even fall. FC goalkeeper Marvin Schwäbe had previously lost control of the ball in the Cologne penalty area, and in an attempt to clear it with a sliding tackle before Demirovic could reach it, he hit the attacker on the Achilles tendon.

Undeterred, the fouled player continued to chase the ball, but after a video review, a penalty was still awarded, which Demirovic used to equalize 1-1.

In the second half, things got even worse for the hosts. Josha Vagnoman turned the game in favor of VfB and scored the 2-1 final score for the Swabians (81st minute).

What do you think? Is that a penalty?

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