"They brought you this victory" on a silver platter ": why Krasnodar accused the judges of the RPL match with Spartak of bias

Spartak got it.

They are judged the way they wanted "

The current RPL season turns out to be rich in referee scandals.

So the central match of the 12th round between Krasnodar and Spartak gave rise to discussing the work of the referee team led by Vladislav Bezborodov.

The red and white won an important victory (3: 1), which allowed them to take a clean first place in the standings, and the referee made several ambiguous decisions.

In particular, before opening an account in the 13th minute, Esequiel Ponce entered into single combat with Evgeny Chernov, and he ended up on the lawn.

However, Bezborodov scored a goal, and the VAR judge Kirill Levnikov did not try to convince his colleague to watch the replay.

And in the 65th minute, the referees canceled the ball of Cayo Pantelean after serving from the set due to the fact that Alexander Martynovich in the fight broke the rules on Samuel Zhigo.

Moreover, in the end, the captain of Krasnodar received a second yellow card and was sent off.

The day after the game, Krasnodar made the most tough official statement on behalf of the club's general director Vladimir Khashig.

According to him, the team of judges worked “biasedly”.

The "guys" Bezborodov and Levnikov made a "beautiful".

I would like to note "Spartak" that the victory in this match was brought to them by the biased refereeing of Bezborodov in the field and the work at VAR Levnikov, "the Krasnodar website quotes Khashig.

Two episodes caused the discontent of the southerners: in fact, Ponce's goal and Cayo's uncounted ball.

So that the fans can personally verify that the referees are wrong, the club has published replays of these moments.

“Why do we consider ... not mistakes, but biased decisions?

Because, in our opinion, both of these points are essentially the same.

With their similarity, they were assessed by the chief referee of the match in a diametrically opposite way.

In the first case, the goal was scored, in the second it was canceled.

They influenced the final result.

In our opinion, this is precisely what the bias consists in, ”they explained in Krasnodar.

The club's representatives also recalled the loud scandal at the start of the current season, when the owner of Spartak Leonid Fedun, after the match with Sochi, threatened to withdraw the team from the championship.

“The entire press, with the support of commentators and analysts, made us watch this hysteria for a week.

There were two such moments in yesterday's match, and there was silence.

We can only admit that Spartak achieved what they wanted.

They are being judged the way they wanted, ”the statement says.

In conclusion, Khashig called Bezborodov "unsinkable" and stressed that it was "useless to contact him for a long time."

Meanwhile, the "young enough man" Levnikov was reprimanded by the functionary for not insisting on watching the controversial episodes, being on VAR.

"People in Krasnodar are very emotional"

The RFU responded immediately to the loud letter from Krasnodar.

The head of the judiciary committee of the federation, Ashot Khachaturyants, noted that all controversial episodes should be considered by the expert and judicial commission.

“People at Krasnodar are very emotional.

Humanly they can be understood.

The interpretation of the episode in the moment with the canceled goal of the team could really be incomprehensible to them.

If the referee allows the fight, then it was not necessary to blow the whistle before the goal was scored.

But all expert assessments will be after the ESCO considers the episodes.

The best domestic and European experts are present on the committee.

I think Krasnodar will send a request in the near future ”, - quotes Khachaturyants“ Championship ”. 

Meanwhile, according to media reports, the RFU remained outraged by the poor performance of Bezborodov at the Krasnodar - Spartak match.

Supposedly, if this happens again, an experienced referee from St. Petersburg will have to end his career.

Spartak also reacted to the opponent's statement.

The general director of the Moscow club, Shamil Gazizov, admitted that he understands his colleague's disappointment.

At the same time, he advised Khashig to remember the words he himself said after the meeting of the teams in March.

Then the southerners won in Moscow with a minimum score thanks to a controversial penalty, and the general director of the southerners noted that he did not comment on the refereeing. 

This time, Khashig's words about judges' bias may raise questions from the RFU Ethics Committee.

Its head, Semyon Andreev, has already stated that the body is ready to consider the application of Krasnodar, if an appropriate instruction is received from the leadership of the federation.

In turn, a member of this committee, Andrei Sozin, admitted that he did not understand the aggression of the southerners against Fedun.

The fact is that it was he who, after the match in Krasnodar, said that the red and white "did everything beautifully." 

“He didn't say anything about the referees, he spoke about the team, praised his players, who really did beautifully.

Fedun spoke correctly, comfortable for everyone, and Krasnodar, of course, is upset with the outcome of the match, the indignation of the refereeing is understandable.

Let the ESC analyze the work of Bezborodov, ”said the functionary.  

However, according to Sozin, Ponce really pushed Chernov in the episode with Spartak's first goal, while Martynovich did not break the rules on Gigot in the moment with Caio's uncounted ball. 

“I, of course, am not a member of the ESC, but if everyone falls like Gigot from such a contact, then any overhang in the penalty area - a penalty or a goal canceling,” added a member of the ethics committee.  

But the former head coach of Krasnodar Igor Shalimov said that there was no violation of the rules by Ponce on Chernov.

Allegedly, the defender of the southerners slipped, and therefore he lost his balance, and a greater scandal would have erupted if Bezborodov had canceled the goal.

Another well-known specialist Nikolai Pisarev agreed with him.

“I think there was no foul.

Chernov played poorly.

First - the leg went, no luck.

And then he lost the fight, already uncoordinated, and missed the ball in the tackle, "the Match TV coach quotes. 

Finally, former referee Igor Fedotov refused to call Bezborodov's refereeing biased.

According to him, it turned out to be "incomprehensible."

The referee from St. Petersburg was mistaken in making a different interpretation of the episodes in similar moments.

“What could Bezborodov have seen in the moment with Ponce's goal?

All judges would have assigned a free kick for that.

He can also say that the defender at the last moment tried to play in the tackle, and fell not after the push, but from the fact that he lost his balance.

But then the question arises: if Bezborodov allowed such a level of single combats, then what did he see in the 65th minute in the penalty area of ​​"Spartak"?

Yes, they put a hand on Zhigot's back, the defender began to fall over.

But why did he allow Ponce to fight, but here he didn’t? ”Asked Fedotov.

At the same time, the former referee emphasized that in the episode with the uncounted goal, Kayo, who was on VAR, Levnikov could not intervene, since Bezborodov blew the whistle about the violation of the rules before the ball flew into the net of Alexander Maksimenko's goal.   

Referees' mistakes are not in favor of "Spartak" and the second referee scandal of "Krasnodar"

If in the match with Krasnodar the referee made controversial decisions in favor of Spartak, then at the end of last season the red and whites themselves repeatedly complained about the work of the referees.

For example, in the match of the 29th round of the RPL against Akhmat (3: 0), Aleksey Sukhoi, together with his colleagues at VAR, canceled the goal of Samuel Zhigot and a penalty kick against Grozny. 

In the semifinal game of the Russian Cup against Zenit in St. Petersburg (1: 2) Sergei Ivanov, according to the fans of the red and white, did not immediately assign three penalties to the hosts' goal.

In particular, in the second half, Jordan Osorio knocked down Ayrton in his own penalty area. 

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Finally, in the meeting of the first round of the new season of the national championship with Sochi (2: 2), the judge Vasily Kazartsev, on the contrary, appointed two controversial penalties at the gates of the capital's team and was later suspended from work.

And Alexey Eskov, who served the match at VAR, did not pass a polygraph test at all and ended his career.  

Krasnodar has become a defendant in the referee scandal for the second week in a row.

In the 11th round, the southerners beat Rubin at home - 3: 1, and then their opponent was dissatisfied with the actions of the judge Mikhail Vilkov.

Kazan citizens filed a protest against the work of the referee and demanded to replay the match.  

The club was outraged by the episode with the appointment of a penalty kick to the guests at the very end of the first half.

The losing side stressed that Vilkov went to watch the replay of the violation of the rules only a minute and a half after the episode itself.

By this time, he had already managed to stop and resume the game, and, accordingly, he could not use video assistance according to the VAR protocol.