Round of 16 between Cologne and Hamburg
DFB Cup: Why Cologne converted the last penalty and still got kicked out
Because Cologne’s Florian Kainz violated the rules when he took the penalty kick, referee Daniel Schlager whistled off the round of 16
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A strange end to a strange game: Hamburger SV only secured their place in the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup after a penalty shoot-out. Cologne almost had the equalizer on their account – if it weren’t for the rules.
The round of 16 encounter between 1. FC Köln and Hamburger SV developed into a real cup thriller. Actually, the billy goats went as clear favorites against the Hanseatic League, who were recently stumbling in the second Bundesliga. In the course of the game, however, the Rhinelanders missed a few high-percentage chances, and the Hamburg team increasingly took control of the game.
In a turbulent extra time, the Cologne team saved themselves literally in the last minute with a penalty shoot-out. From then on it got weird.
When the score was 3:4, Cologne’s Florian Kainz stepped up to the penalty spot as the fifth shooter for the billy goats. The ball went into the net – but the goal didn’t count. Referee Daniel Schlager blew the whistle and the Hanseatic League cheered. The people of Cologne stood on the lawn, visibly puzzled.
Illegal double touch
The reason: Kainz slipped slightly when taking the penalty and touched the ball first with his standing leg before hitting the supposed equalizer. An illegal double touch. The DFB rules state: “The penalty is completed when the ball stops moving, it is out of play or the referee interrupts play for an offence. The penalty taker may not play the ball a second time.”
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That’s exactly what happened to the Austrian. In this case “this penalty will be counted as missed and the penalty taker will be warned”. So the referee was spot on. As a result, HSV made it into the quarter-finals for the fourth time in eight years.
sources: dpa; “ran.de“; DFB rules