Przemyslaw Tyton will miss VfB Stuttgart’s trip to Hertha BSC on September 12th.
A fair decision
Tyton was red carded after 67 minutes after the Polish goalkeeper brought down Eintracht Frankfurt's summer signing Luc Castiagnos in the penalty area. From the resulting penalty, Haris Seferovic slotted his spot-kick into the bottom corner.
Today, Stuttgart agreed with DFB Sports Court that the red card was justified and wished not to appeal and risk a further match ban.
The ban causes a selection headache for Alexander Zorniger. The Stuttgart manager now is without former Borussia Dortmund ‘keeper Mitchell Langerak, after the Australian required an operation which would see him miss up to eight weeks. The 26-year old cost the Swabians €4 million. Langerak suffered his muscle injury in Stuttgart’s training camp.
Although he is suspended for the Hertha Berlin match, Tyton will be back for their game against Andre Breitenreiter’s Schalke 04.
Zorniger set to keep faith in Vlachodimos
With the goalkeeping crisis in full flow, 21-year old Odisseas Vlachodimos was only promoted to the Stuttgart first team last July after he signed from Stuttgart II. The young German has played for the German youth teams from under-17s to under-20s.
Speaking after Stuttgart’s demotivating 1-4 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt, Zorninger said: "We will have to do something else." With the manager saying this, one would expect Stuttgart to be in the market for a goalkeeper. However, managing director Robin Dutt dismissed these reports, “Tthere is a 'keeper in order, (Vlachodimos) can now prove that he is rightly in the squad."
Vlachodimos came on to replace Tyton this past weekend. He came on from goalscorer Daniel Didavi, who equalised the game on the half hour mark, but he couldn’t quite save the penalty. The 21-year-old failed to prevent the defeat as the loss was inevitable already when they were 1-2 down, by the time of the Polish goalkeeper’s departure. The German 'keeper could not stop Luc Castaignos’ second goal three minutes from time.