Overview
- A late passive-play warning led referees to count what they judged five passes and to disallow HSG Wetzlar’s apparent 32:31 goal, leaving the game tied 31:31.
- Wetzlar initially announced it would file a protest, arguing the final pass to Nikolaj Læsø was the fourth pass and should have stood.
- Hours after the match, the club chose not to lodge a formal appeal because its legal and sporting review found overturning a referee’s factual judgement unlikely.
- Both HSG Wetzlar and ThSV Eisenach now keep one point from the draw, the teams’ first point of the Bundesliga season on the third matchday.
- Under handball rules, a passive-play warning limits the attack to four passes before a shot, and disputes over which individual pass counted are treated as factual referee calls that are rarely changed after the game.