The head coach of the Donetsk team spoke about the work of the team of referees in the duel with Kryvbas.
Patrick Van Leeuwen did not like the work of the team of referees in the match between Kryvbas and Shakhtar. According to the head coach of the Pitmen, the referee should give more freedom to the teams on the pitch.
In addition, the Dutchman believes that the two red cards were shown fairly, but the dismissal of Dmitry Chygrynskyy was somewhat controversial.
“Regarding the red cards, the referee considered the situations on the field as a rough tackle, and he was right. I consider his decision for VAR to be correct. As for the dismissal of Chygrynskyy, I believe that one of the two yellow cards In in general, I want to say that the referees should consider that football is a contact sport, not to listen to screams, and, in my opinion, so much noise is not created by fouls, but by players who lose of control. of the ball.
Today we should have won with a big goal difference, but we did not convert too many attacking opportunities, which gave confidence to the opponent, who scored three goals from three opportunities,” said Van Leeuwen.
Recall that Shakhtar failed to beat Kryvbas in the fourth round of the UPL, winning the meeting with a difference of two goals.
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