Marco Rose was furious, and even the good coaxing of former Leipzig player Ralph Hasenhüttl could hardly calm the RB coach down. The 47-year-old Leipzig man was extremely annoyed about a yellow card for Xavi Simons, who was accused of a foul during the 3-0 (1-0) win against VfL Wolfsburg. Immediately after the incident, Rose threw himself on the floor in the coaching area, knelt down and put his hands over his head. He got so angry that he even saw a yellow card in stoppage time. And now Rose will miss the Bundesliga game at Heidenheim next Saturday (3.30pm/Sky) due to suspension.
"He's suspended, really?" asked Dani Olmo in the catacombs after the Spaniard had kept the Saxons on course for the top flight with a dream goal (13th minute) in front of 45,858 spectators, before Benjamin Sesko (68th) and Lois Openda (82nd) increased the lead. With a little distance, Rose then calmly said at the press conference, "I was cool for 90 minutes, I got a yellow card for that?" He said he had to protect his players, especially the dribbling Dutchman Simons, who gets "hit on the woodwork" every weekend.
The flood of cards in stoppage time was completely unnecessary, the game had long since been decided and the goal account in the long-distance duel with Borussia Dortmund, who remain level on points, had been increased. "We weren't bad, but we weren't really good either. Wolfsburg repeatedly made it difficult for us to get into our pressing," said Rose, commenting on the yellow card suspension in the final sprint of the season: "I really thought I would get through."
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