🎥 Epic troll in DFB-Pokal: This moment tops a 1-6 thrashing

With a resounding 6:1 victory, Hertha BSC swept 1. FC Kaiserslautern out of the DFB-Pokal and can now dream of the final in their own stadium more than ever.

FCK star Marlon Ritter, on the other hand, probably dreamed of a very different scene last night: In the 87th minute, he was just studying a tactics note handed to him from the bench when suddenly Hertha’s Dawid Kownacki appeared and simply snatched the paper out of his hand.

Ritter briefly tried to get the note back, but quickly gave up. Kownacki stayed cool, calmly read through the opponent’s instructions, and even tried to return the piece of paper at the end. One wonders: Is that really necessary at this score?

But while this caused laughter on social media, it actually played no major role in the Berlin Olympic Stadium.

After the match, both coaches admitted they hadn’t even seen the incident. Lautern coach Torsten Lieberknecht waved it off: “That doesn’t change the result.” Ritter himself was more blunt: “I don’t give a damn.”

Given the clear deficit in the 87th minute, it’s likely that Kownacki didn’t spot any highly complex tactical instructions on the note anyway, but rather the quickest possible public transport route back to Kaiserslautern.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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