"Within the meaning of the viability of a match, the replay of a Bundesliga game is the very last resort and only to be carried out within crystal-clear circumstances and legal position," said Thomas Eichin, who is responsible for the Bayer 04 Women's team as the director of professional teams: "From our perspective, the DFB or the DFB referees committee should have prevented this verdict but instead they acted as the instigators and prime movers."
Originally, SC Freiburg appealed against the result and Bayer 04 lodged an appeal against the first verdict in favour of Freiburg after an oral hearing at the DFB sports tribunal. The game has yet to be rescheduled.
In the 88th minute of the match on 31 August at the Dreisamstadion, referee Theresa Hug awarded Leverkusen a penalty. Kristin Kögel fired over the bar but the official allowed the spot-kick to be retaken as goalkeeper Rafaela Borggräfe had moved off her line too early. Kögel converted the second attempt to make it 3-2, the final score.
The return game against SC Freiburg is coming up. The match at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium is on Saturday, 14 December (12.00 CET).
Two keepers, lots of questions: Werkself captain Lukas Hradecky and U19 goalkeeper Jesper Schlich visited the BarmeniaGothaer children’s press conference in partnership with the Bayer 04 Lions Club on Wednesday afternoon. The duo faced interesting and at times unusual questions from around 50 inquisitive young journalists in the press conference room at the BayArena.
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A large number of sporting directors and officials from big clubs across Europe came to the BayArena on Tuesday for the second seminar in the UEFA Sporting Director Programme (SDP) in cooperation with the ECA.
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Full-back Janou Levels will leave Bayer 04 Leverkusen at the end of the season. The 24-year-old has activated her release clause and she will join Bundesliga rivals VfL Wolfsburg. She has signed a three-year contract.
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After returning from Hamburg and a day off on Easter Monday, the Werkself players were back on the training ground at the BayArena on Tuesday morning. Following the session, Amine Adli was very positive in a media interview about the remaining four matches including the forthcoming home game against FC Augsburg (Saturday, 26 April, 15:30 CEST): "We will give our all to end the season as well as we can!"
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