The game’s major talking point arrived in the 89th minute when Noni Madueke went down following minimal contact from Malik Tillman. Despite furious protests and a VAR review, the decision stood. Robert Andrich, who had earlier opened the scoring for Leverkusen, was left frustrated: "That is already very little. Of course he should not go down like that. I also know such situations: if you go down and maybe have the feeling: 'Oh sh*t, now I'm already down.' But that is already very, very little," Andrich told DAZN.
He added: "My feeling was that the small contact comes and he still falls a bit later. If I see it twice more, it is even less. That is surely not enough." Head coach Kasper Hjulmand was even more definitive: "No contact and then he goes down. It is no penalty."