MOSCOW, March 10, Andrey Senchenko. Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (FTC RFU) could reject Khimki's appeal against the result of the match of the Russian Premier League with Lokomotiv Moscow due to the fact that the railroad football player Jan Kukhta served a suspension in the 1/8 final match of the Russian Cup against Enisey (0:4) , said a member of the Supervisory Board of the Moscow Region club Roman Teryushkov. «Lokomotiv» beat «Khimki» in the 20th round of the Russian Championship with a score of 3:2. Kukhta, who appeared in the starting lineup of the Red-Greens, became the author of the winning goal. In the camp of Muscovites, the footballer moved from the Prague «Slavia» in the winter. In the last game for the Czech team, he received a red card and was suspended for one match. “Khimki” following the results of the match with “Lokomotiv” filed a protest with the RFU FTC with a request to count the technical defeat to the railroad workers. The protest was rejected. «We listened to the arguments of colleagues from Lokomotiv, but at the same time, our position is that all the procedural points for disqualifying Jan Kukhta were completed. The Russian Football Union and the Czech Football Association were informed, data were entered into a single FIFA database were made. According to our regulations, disqualifications in the Russian Premier League do not apply to the Cup of Russia,» said Teryushkov. football player. At the time of filing a protest with the FTC, the probability of its acceptance was estimated at 70% to 30% in favor of Kukhta's disqualification. Unfortunately, those 30% have now played. Our opponents argued their position so that Kukhta served his suspension in the Russian Cup match. We are waiting for a motivational part from the FTC to decide whether to file an appeal with Khimki or not,» the agency's speaker added.
