EX-Arbitr FIFA DIVED LANDS OF Curator of Ukrainian Craftsmanship

In each round, the games from the top three are attracting increased attention. This was the case in the 24th in Lviv, where the movement and one of the contenders on the medal, Alexandria, met. In the 76th minute of this duel, an episode that caused a lot of controversy occurred. After receiving the transfer from the partner in the penalty area of ​​Lviv residents of the team of guests Artem Kozak turned and shot in the direction of the gate. The ball hit the football player “Rukh” Denis Pidhursky, but the referee did not pay attention to this point. The Cossack himself raised his hands up, demonstrating his surprise with such an interpretation of the rules. And on the coaching bench and near it, the reaction to the episode was quite hot. At the end of the match, Alexandria head coach Ruslan Rotan expressed his indignation by judiciality, accusing the referee of bias.

The scandalous episode Sport.ua asked to comment on FIFA’s exarbiter Oleg Orekhov.

“A complex episode, because the video reprimor cannot be clearly understood,” he said. – If the ball got in the right hand of Pidhursky, then in this case it can be stated that he did not play it, because it was pressed to the trunk. Therefore, it should be understood that the very close distance from the player who struck, and to the one who defended himself, holding his right hand near the body is not a ground for the appointment of a penalty. In such cases, the game should be continued. A completely different matter is the left hand. At that moment, it was taken to the side, closing the movement of the ball and was in an unnatural position. That’s my opinion.

Oleg Orekhov also stopped at the episode, which became resonant in the previous, 23rd round of UPL. It was about the Polissya match – “Carpathians”, in which shortly before the final whistle, the goalkeeper of the Zhytomyr team Oleg Kudryk in his own penalty area struck the head of the Lviv football player in his own penalty area.

– In my comment for Sport.ua, I expressed my conviction that a blow to the head is a penalty, but the curator of Ukrainian referee Nicola Ritzsoly says that this is a contact sport, – Orekhov continues. – However, I do not understand what the contact sport in the head in the head is in general? Let’s say, if the Kudryk came out of the gate and miss the ball past, and Igor Nevez played, after which one inertia football player crashed into another, then so – I agree that there is no eleven meter in this case. But when the goalkeeper does not play the ball, but beats in the head, what else can you talk about here? The whole country sees that it is a blow to the head, and we are told about the “contact sport”. It’s a shame, very sorry.

Earlier it became known whether the movement will allow their players to play in the Lviv derby.