The center match of the second round of the Russian Premier League (RPL), played in Krasnodar between the team of the same name and Spartak Moscow, was played on Saturday, but the controversy and scandals surrounding it have so far not subsided.
Despite the great victory of the capital club, the “bulls” continue to argue that the Spartak team came to this not because of superiority on the football field, but because of the blunders of the referee team led by Kirill Levnikov.
The highlight of the game was the highlight of Krasnodar midfielder Alexander Chernikov – with a score of 0: 1, the football player hit the Nigerian with a brush in a fight for the ball with Victor Moses and immediately received a prize. Red card. Alexander Storozhuk’s team failed to win back with ten men, and Chernikov blamed himself for the team’s recent defeat.
“We would have won this game 100% if I hadn’t retired. I take full blame and responsibility for this loss,” he said.
Before receiving another red card, Chernikov considered how to deal with his hypersensitivity with an expert.
“I came out with a fighting for every ball, winning martial arts attitude. I thought about starting to go to a psychologist. I talked to the manager, but then I found another method: I started doing yoga. It may not be noticed yet, but progress is being made. I work once a week,” Chernikov said on his YouTube channel “Comment.Show.”
On Monday, Krasnodar released a video in which they ridicule Spartak owner Leonid Fedun’s remark about “a good victory”.
In this video, the bulls focused on three controversial episodes. The first moment was the elbow match of Spartak striker Alexander Sobolev, after which Vyacheslav Litvinov (whose name should not be confused with Ruslan) went on the grass.
The black-greens’ leadership then expressed surprise at the decision of head referee Kirill Levnikov not to show Sobolev a warning for his unsportsmanlike behavior when he signaled to Russian striker John Cordoba to shut up.
The third part of “Krasnodar” praised the “acting skills” of Victor Moses, from whom Chernikov was removed.
Krasnodar joined Mr. Fedun’s congratulations on Spartak’s good victory. According to the results of the 2021-22 season, Krasnodar took the first place in points lost due to referee errors and thanks to Kirill Levnikov and Evgeny Kukulyak, they are confidently moving towards another award in the second round!” – it says at the beginning and end of the video.
After the video was published in the official sources of the club, Artur Grigoryants, chairman of the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (FTC RFU), said that after the match with Spartak, the owner of Krasnodar, Sergei Galitsky: entered the referee’s room illegally.
In the match “Krasnodar” – “Spartak” there are two moments associated with the lack of security. After the match, Sergei Galitsky broke into the referee’s room. Also the view of a fan on the field. The third question about this match is that Chernikov was removed for aggressive behavior, ”said Match TV, quoting Grigoryants.
The chairman of the committee said that he will evaluate these developments in his next meeting.
In the evening, he broadcast a bright red and white news on Telegram channels. reply While editing footage of the past meeting with suffixes from The Simpsons, Pulp Fiction, Batman, American Psycho, and other movies, on southern claims, St. Not forgetting to joke about the St. Petersburg Summit and the work of the judiciary at the RPL.
Former Spartak Moscow player and mentor Valery Gladilin said in an interview with a socialbites.ca correspondent that the complaints of the red-whites, based on the results of the meeting, which was won by a large point, seem unreasonable.
“I don’t know, it’s probably already automatic. How can you get angry at the work of the referees who have won a big victory on the road? Also, I did not even see particularly controversial points there. Maybe they were, but what could they be, I did not understand.
What is the reason for Spartak’s complaints? Fedun not satisfied with the punishment? It has been watched many times, there is VAR, there is video recording. What is he dissatisfied with, did he want 7:0? In principle, Spartak could have won 7-0. But the penalty was set and the judges watched, and VAR let VAR watch.
If the Fedun believes that there is no punishment, this is his personal opinion. If the referees have conceded a penalty, then there has been an infringement. Let Fedun say what he wants, this is his position, ”the expert told socialbites.ca.
Former striker of Moscow Lokomotiv team and Russian national team Dmitry Bulykin called on teams to play in such a way that the mistakes of the referees could not change the nature of the game.
“Everyone will always turn to the judges. They will always make mistakes, but of course there is a line that should not be crossed. You have to get through the whole championship on your own talent, complain about the referees and then on the field or something before looking for excuses. We must be confident and play in a way that referee mistakes do not affect the outcome of the matches.
Should we go back to the practice of inviting foreign referees? No, I do not think so. We need to work with our referees and improve the system, let them explain their decision after each match.
We have many people who do not know the rules, even among the players themselves. And if they immediately explain the controversial points, using the example of a certain game that will benefit both the fans and themselves, ”Bulykin said in an interview with a socialbites.ca correspondent.