Former FIFA referee Alexei Nikolaev on the air MATCH PRIME said that difficult weather conditions probably did not cause difficulties for the chief referee and players during the match of the 13th round of the Russian Football Championship between Krylia Sovetov and Orenburg.
The match in Samara ended with a score of 1:1. The match took place in reduced visibility due to fog.
— Was it worth organizing the match in such conditions? Did the referee have reason to postpone the match?
— To answer this question, you have to be directly on the football field. The image above is so-so. As for the point of view of the players and the referee, we can say that this did not cause any problems for either the referee or the players of the two teams.
I remember a case from my practice. During the Spartak-CSKA derby, there was a smoke screen covering the pitch; crews had to be taken inside because people could inhale the smoke. After five to seven minutes, everything on the field cleared up, but there was fog in the stadium bowl. This did not cause any problems for me or the players, but the audience tried to get used to it to see something for a while, ”Nikolaev said on MATCH PRIME.
In the 80th minute, the chief referee of the match, Rafael Shafeev, awarded a penalty for a foul by Krylia Sovetov goalkeeper Bogdan Ovsyannikov on Orenburg striker Dmitry Obukhov, but after a video review he returned to his decision and punished the attacker with a yellow card. for the simulation.
— If you look at the episode, the head referee, who was moving and seeing it clearly, might have thought that the goalkeeper had not had time to play the ball, there was a possible touch. But certain angles and repetitions indicate an obvious simulation of the Orenburg player.
(VAR referee Pavel) Kukuyan correctly called the referee to the monitor. In this situation, the attacker must receive the card he received,” Nikolaev noted.
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Source : MatchTV
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