Maximilian Arnold fumes over non-handball-call: “One can only get away with that in Wolfsburg.” | OneFootball

Despite a courageous performance, VfL Wolfsburg weren’t able to overcome visiting RB Leipzig in their Saturday afternoon Bundesliga fixture. The latest loss leaves Wolfsburg winless at home in their last 11 matches dating back to last season.

The VWers haven’t won at the Volkswagen Arena since a brace from the departed Lukas Nmecha lifted them above Borussia Mönchengladbach on January 14th of the current calendar year. Nine months certainly constitutes a long wait for a home win for Germany’s green company team.

Captain Maximilian Arnold seemed to the think that the company club from the company town received unfair treatment merely because of who they were.

The 31-year-old thought that a 16th-minute handball from Leipzig’s Assan Ouédraogo – by last weekend’s standards at least – should have resulted in a penalty for Wolfsburg.

Match official Robin Braun was alerted to the possibility by the VAR-review team in Germany’s famed Kölner Keller. Braun took a look at the scene himself on the pitch-side monitor before waving it off.

Braun might have declined to give the penalty based on the fact that VfL defender Kilian Fischer’s shot was heading well wide of the goal anyway. Braun could have also considered the contact from Ouédraogo minimal and unintentional.

“Come on, what the hell is going on here?” Arnold railed in the mixed zone. “In my opinion, that’s a clear penalty! I always have the feeling that one can only get away with that in Wolfsburg. I don’t think it’s good. I don’t understand it, I don’t accept it, and I don’t think it’s right.”

Arnold’s head coach concurred.

“I can’t understand how anyone can not see that,” a visibly distraught Paul SImonis added. “I don’t know. It’s unbelievable.“

GGFN | Peter Weis