Former FIFA referee Alexei Nikolaev on the air, MATCH PRIME said that in the first half of the match of the 29th round of the RPL WORLD between “Akhmatom” And “Zenith” (1:5) a penalty should have been awarded to the Grozny team.
In the 30th minute, Akhmat midfielder Anton Shvets, while trying to play the ball, hit the leg of Zenit striker Mateo Cassierra in the Grozny penalty area.
— Sergey Karasev is in a good position. Instead of the ball, Shvets hits a Zenit player on the foot. It’s easier to explain that it’s a penalty than not.
The replay behind the goal does not convince us at all that there was real contact there. The moment is creative. But it is easier to explain that it is a penalty.
— Why didn’t VAR intervene?
—Again, a question for VAR. You have to hear the judges’ conversations to understand what they are talking about at that moment. First of all, it is the opinion of the chief justice that he sees the moment. In the VAR center, if they consider this a non-obvious error and listen to the opinion of the chief referee, they do not intervene in this episode,” Nikolaev said in the show “The Rules of the Game” from the MATCH PREMIER television channel.
The final round of the MIR RPL will take place on May 25. All eight matches will begin simultaneously at 4:30 p.m. Moscow time and will be broadcast live on the “Match!
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Source : MatchTV
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