Soccer reboot in Germany: No fans, lonely goal celebrations Globe_Sports
Team staff, and players who didn’t start, wore masks. Substitutes took their positions in the stands, rather than beside the field, while balls and seats were disinfected.
Brandt set up Raphaël Guerreiro before the break and Thorgan Hazard after it. Hazard celebrated alone in front of the Westfalenstadion’s south terrace, where normally the club’s “Yellow Wall” of almost 25,000 fervent fans would be standing. “It’s quite surreal,” Dortmund chief executive Hans Joachim Watzke told Sky TV. “I’ve received messages from all over the world in the last couple of hours that everybody is watching and then you go through the city and there’s nothing going on.”
Leipzig was grateful to VAR for ruling out what would have been a winning injury-time goal from Freiburg’s Robin Koch.Story continues below advertisement Numerous polls showed a growing majority in Germany were against the resumption of the leagues. Fans are also critical.
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