The referee team of the Orenburg – Zenit match should have made a quicker decision to cancel the goal of the visiting striker Luciano, because the offside was obvious, former FIFA referee Sergei Lapochkin told .
The match of the 16th round of the MIR RPL in Orenburg ended with a score of 1:0 in favor of the guests. In the 90+1st minute, Luciano scored, and after a VAR tip, four minutes later the goal was canceled by head referee Sergei Karasev. Shortly after this episode, Alexander Erokhin scored and brought victory to Zenit.
-Why did it take so long to watch?
— It’s hard to say why it took so long to watch the episode. Maybe they first analyzed the moment with Erokhin, who touched the defender, and then, maybe, they moved to the second moment, when Cassier touched the ball and Luciano was offside. This is a long watch, we need to do it much faster. It is clear that the game is already coming to an end, it was important to make the right decision and cancel the goal. There was no doubt about offside, there was no need to even draw lines. But the dynamics of the game were disrupted,” Lapochkin told .
Zenit scored 39 points and topped the Russian Championship standings.
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