Sebastian Rode explains Zoff with the fourth official

Eintracht Frankfurt’s Sebastian Rode clashed with the fourth official in the defeat against BVB. After the game, the SGE captain explained his outburst of anger, for which he had received a yellow card.

“It was very emotionally charged,” said Rode after the 2-1 defeat against Dortmund sky. In injury time, Rode, who had already been substituted at the time, complained massively to fourth official Nicolas Winter about a referee’s decision, and the Eintracht captain stormed angry and cursing at the 30-year-old.

“There is a little history with the fourth official, he taught us referees in the summer,” explained Rode, raising allegations against Winter: “It wasn’t really that great. He made a somewhat arrogant impression and even when we had questions, that they asked didn’t respond normally. That’s why I got a little carried away.”

Rode received a yellow card for freaking out on the sidelines. The penalty scene between Karim Adeyemi and Jesper Lindström was hotly debated afterwards. Referee Sascha Stegemann later described it as a wrong decision to have denied the SGE a penalty in the situation.