Karasev explained why he removed Rosha in the episode with Sobolev during the Spartak-CSKA game

Russian football referee Sergei Karasev told in the program “Loud” on “” why he decided to withdraw the defender from CSKA Williana Roshu in the match of the 28th round of the WORLD RPL with Spartak.

In the match of the 28th round of the WORLD RPL, which ended with the victory of the “red-whites” (2: 1), Sobolev, after one of the martial arts in the second half, showed an obscene gesture to Roche, pointing to his groin. After that, the Brazilian appealed to the referee and repeated the obscene gesture, referring to the linesman. Both players were sent off the field.

– That’s how it goes, there’s a lot of experience, a lot of games, and it happened for the first time when it was necessary to make a withdrawal decision for some kind of offensive gesture or obscene. I didn’t have that, there was always football stuff. Live and learn. Sometimes you’re just not ready, because the game is going well, under control, the players understand you, and then this situation happens.

From the back, it was difficult for me to understand, I could only guess what Sobolev was showing. There was a dialogue with an assistant who saw this moment. He passed information to me, we discussed everything, we were ready to withdraw Sobolev, then additional information came from the assistant that Rosha showed the same gesture towards the assistant and the bleachers. Rosha’s motive for doing this is very difficult to understand in the game, we cannot approach him and ask him why he is doing this. The rules say that an obscene gesture towards someone is punished with a red card. We discussed the moment again with the assistant and, according to the rules, sent both players off. Then there was the FTC decision,” Karasev said on the Loud show on .

After the derby with CSKA, Sobolev was suspended for four games, later the appeal committee reduced his suspension to three games. Additionally, the FTC RFU decided to rescind Roshi’s red card.