BVB star Jude Bellingham with a serious charge against referee Felix Zwayer
Jude Bellingham raised serious allegations against referee Felix Zwayer after Borussia Dortmund’s 3-2 defeat by FC Bayern.
Borussia Dortmund’s Jude Bellingham reacted with harsh criticism to the performance of referee Felix Zwayer in the top Bundesliga match between BVB and FC Bayern Munich (2: 3).
“For me it wasn’t a penalty. Hummels doesn’t even look at the ball, he fights to get to it,” said Bellingham on the Norwegian broadcaster Viaplay Fotball addressed to the controversial scene that led to the penalty for FC Bayern and the 3-2 winning goal.
The Englishman continued: “You can watch many other decisions in this game. What do you expect when you broadcast the biggest game in Germany to a referee who has already been involved in match-fixing?”
Bellingham was alluding to the 2005 soccer betting scandal. Zwayer was one of the Berlin referees who brought down the former referee Robert Hoyzer with their statements.
BVB: Bellingham’s accusation against Zwayer
Afterwards, Zwayer was also banned for six months because he did not report the match manipulations by Hoyzer known to him and accepted 300 euros from Hoyzer before a game between Wuppertaler SV against Werder Bremen II in order to help as a line judge to avoid critical situations for Wuppertal . However, the judgment against Zwayer was not published by the DFB at the time, it only became known in 2014.
Dortmund’s displeasure also resulted from the fact that a duel between Lucas Hernandez and Marco Reus in Bayern’s penalty area had not previously been called.
Bellingham said: “If one of the two situations needs to be checked, it’s the other. Bayern’s penalty didn’t look like anything in real time, but if he’d hit the arm it would have been fair. But Dortmund’s non-decision was a clear one Penalty. “