In the 22nd week of the Russian Premier League (RPL), the chief referee of the match played between Spartak Moscow and Dynamo (3:3), Sergei Ivanov mistakenly awarded a penalty to the blue and white team. Nikolai Levnikov, member of the Expert Referee Commission (ESC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU), explained this.
In the 84th minute of the match, Spartak’s player Roman Zobnin fell on the grass while his team was sending a banner after touching blue-white defender Eli Dasa. The referee immediately pointed to the point, but the referee at VAR invited him to review the episode. After watching the video replay of that moment, Ivanov didn’t back down and showed Dasa a yellow card.
“With Roman Zobnin’s fall in the penalty area, there was no rule violation at first. The moment is simple, especially in terms of viewing it on a monitor. Not all physical contact is grounds for a penalty kick. Here the commission unanimously admitted that the judge was wrong, the VAR called him right, he had to change his decision, ”quotes Levnikov “Match TV”.
Spartak has amassed 42 points and is in third place in the RPL standings. Dynamo is sixth with 36 points.
In the 23rd round, on April 15, Spartak will play away with the capital’s Torpedo, and Dynamo will play at home with Paris Nizhny Novgorod.
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