The midfielder of Shakhtar and the Ukrainian national team complained about the refereeing in the Nations League match.
Taras Stepanenko was not satisfied with the referee’s actions of the Nations League match Czech Republic – Ukraine. According to the midfielder, the referee should not give a penalty against the blue-yellows.
In addition, the Shakhtar football player summarized the game, explaining why the Ukrainians lost to the Czech national team.
“I think somewhere we now have some kind of uncertainty when there are no results. Let’s just say that we are trying to play easier somewhere so we don’t get goals, which means that today we were scored from two outs.
We were preparing for the Czechs to throw in there, we fixed it, and we got two goals from outside. We also prepared with set pieces against the Albanians and we got a goal.
It happens in football, as in people’s lives, when you do something, but not everything works, and you start looking inside yourself, at the team, trying to play simpler, more concentrated, trying to pay somewhere for some kind of beauty of football some kind of pragmatism.
I will say this: all the players who are in the national team are high-level players, players who are used to playing under pressure, and have been playing under pressure for more than a year. And it’s normal to criticize us – where it’s right and where it’s wrong.
punishment? There is VAR and such a moment… In my opinion, it is not a penalty. I say: we referee like the Scots… I remember that we played with the Slovaks, Pyatov scored a goal, the referee whistled a foul (qualification match for Euro 2016).
And now. Such a moment: the ball flies, there is a struggle, the ball hits the shoulder, maybe somewhere on the arm a little. He was not influenced for a single moment,” the Tribuna portal quoted Stepanenko as saying.
We remind you that earlier Sergei Rebrov named the reason for the loss of the Ukrainian national team in the Czech Republic.
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Source: korrespondent
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