{"id":103708,"date":"2025-09-27T18:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=103708"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:22:09","slug":"maximilian-arnold-fumes-over-non-handball-call-one-can-only-get-away-with-that-in-wolfsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/maximilian-arnold-fumes-over-non-handball-call-one-can-only-get-away-with-that-in-wolfsburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximilian Arnold fumes over non-handball-call: &#8220;One can only get away with that in Wolfsburg.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/rb-leipzig-sporting-director-on-teams-slender-victory-if-harry-kane-had-been-on-the-pitch\/\">a courageous performance<\/a>, VfL Wolfsburg weren&#8217;t able to overcome visiting RB Leipzig in their Saturday afternoon Bundesliga fixture. The latest loss leaves Wolfsburg winless at home in their last 11 matches dating back to last season.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>VWers <\/em>haven&#8217;t won at the Volkswagen Arena since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/lukas-nmecha-on-the-comeback-trail-so-many-people-have-helped-me\/\">a brace from the departed Lukas Nmecha lifted them above Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach on January 14th of the current calendar year.<\/a> Nine months certainly constitutes a long wait for a home win for Germany&#8217;s green company team.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Maximilian Arnold seemed to the think that the company club from the company town received unfair treatment merely because of who they were.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old thought that a 16th-minute handball from Leipzig&#8217;s Assan Ou\u00e9draogo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/two-bundesliga-referees-explain-two-controversial-handball-penalties\/\">by last weekend&#8217;s standards at least<\/a> &#8211; should have resulted in a penalty for Wolfsburg.<\/p>\n<p>Match official Robin Braun was alerted to the possibility by the VAR-review team in Germany&#8217;s famed K\u00f6lner Keller. Braun took a look at the scene himself on the pitch-side monitor before waving it off.<\/p>\n<p>Braun might have declined to give the penalty based on the fact that VfL defender Kilian Fischer&#8217;s shot was heading well wide of the goal anyway. Braun could have also considered the contact from Ou\u00e9draogo minimal and unintentional.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Come on, what the hell is going on here?&#8221; <\/em>Arnold railed in the mixed zone. &#8220;<em>In my opinion, that&#8217;s a clear penalty! I always have the feeling that one can only get away with that in Wolfsburg. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s good. I don&#8217;t understand it, I don&#8217;t accept it, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s right.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arnold&#8217;s head coach concurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I can&#8217;t understand how anyone can not see that,<\/em>&#8221; a visibly distraught Paul SImonis added. &#8220;<em>I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s unbelievable.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/\">GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeterVicey\"><strong>Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VfL Wolfsburg captain Maximilian Arnold took out his frustration over his team&#8217;s 11th straight home match without a win by blaming match official Robin Braun on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312420,"featured_media":103709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[127,11,340],"tags":[1223,1030,449,2133,1925,2245,1028,2599,562,3509,460],"class_list":["post-103708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vfl-wolfsburg","category-bundesliga","category-rb-leipzig","tag-assan-ouedraogo","tag-borussia-monchengladbach-2","tag-bundesliga","tag-kilian-fischer","tag-lukas-nmecha","tag-maximilian-arnold","tag-news","tag-paul-simonis","tag-rb-leipzig","tag-robin-braun","tag-vfl-wolfsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103710,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103708\/revisions\/103710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}