Lapochkin: ‘There were penalty reasons against CSKA, but we were told all season that the contact should be more tangible’

Former FIFA referee Sergei Laposhkin on the airwaves of “”, he doubted the accuracy of the penalty awarded on goal CSKA in the match of the 28th day of the WORLD RPL with “Spartacus “.

Sunday’s meeting, held at the Otkritie Bank Arena, ended in a voluntary victory for the local team with the score 2:1. In the 87th minute, the chief referee Sergei Karasev assigned an 11-yard kick to the army goal for a foul Victor Mendes on Victor Moses in the penalty area.

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– A very controversial episode. We see the contact, the striker throws the ball, plays it. There is a contact, there are reasons to appoint a sanction. But we’ve been told all season that there has to be a tangible, more conscious contact, here you see a slight contact in passing, but it’s there. There are reasons, but from what we were told earlier, the referees want to see more accentuated contact. We then see how the player falls and clings not at all to the leg where he was hit, but to the other.

Speaking of the first missed penalty, unfortunately it was a gross error from VAR who called Sergey and heated the situation. Of course, the defender hit the ball and he has nowhere to put his foot. Sergey, looking at the monitor, made an absolutely correct decision. The main problem is that in similar episodes of other matches, the defender did not play the ball, but here the defender plays the ball in a sporty way, and he has nowhere to put his leg,” said Lapochkin on .

Spartak scored 53 points and moved up to third place in the RPL table, CSKA are second with 54 points.

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