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Mark van Bommel can still kick himself for his unprecedented mistake during his official debut as head coach of VfL Wolfsburg. He led his team to a hard-fought cup victory over the puny Preussen Munster, but used one substitution too much. As a result, his team was kicked out of the DFB Pokal.
Van Bommel still can't get his head around it. "That was so incredibly stupid," he recalls in conversation with Sport1. "I was annoyed with myself. No, this will never happen to me again. It was not necessary and that is why it is so painful." Van Bommel and his team won 1-3 after extra time, but the coach used a sixth substitution. The allowed number was five.
"We were surprised afterwards that we had used one switch too much," said Van Bommel. We asked the arbitration several times whether it was allowed and never heard that it was not the case. We have therefore lodged an appeal, but unfortunately that has not yielded any results. It's behind me," said the new coach.
Van Bommel wants to focus on the new season in the Bundesliga and the Champions League. Despite a disappointing preparation and the named substitution error, Van Bommel got off to a good start at Wolfsburg. After three competition matches, the team of Wout Weghorst and acquisition Micky van de Ven occupies the lead with nine points.
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