MOSCOW, Mar 25Referee Sergei Ivanov mistakenly did not remove Nizhny Novgorod player Kirill Gotsuk after a confrontation with Spartak Moscow player Ayrton, according to a statement by the expert refereeing commission of the Russian Football Union (ESK RFU) on the organization's website. On Thursday, the RFU control and disciplinary committee refused to Satisfaction of the application of «Spartak» on the application of sanctions against Gotsuku. «Nizhny Novgorod» and «Spartak» on March 19 tied with a score of 1:1. At the end of the first half, the defender of the Moscow club Ayrton was injured as a result of a joint with Gotsuk. The «red-white» player left the field on a stretcher, Ivanov did not see the violation of the rules in the episode. — said in the conclusion of the commission. ESC rejected the claims of Kazan «Rubin» on the work of referee Kirill Levnikov in the match of the 22nd round against CSKA. Kazan, who lost on the road with a score of 1:6, turned to the commission about conceded goals in the 5th and 11th minutes. The ESC concluded that both goals were counted correctly: in the first case, the army player Yusuf Yazici at the time of the pass was not behind the offside line, which in this episode was determined by the position of the ball, which was confirmed by VAR when checking the goal; before the second goal, the contact of the ball with the hand of CSKA footballer Jesus Medina should not be punished, as he tried to remove his hand. In the opinion of the commission, the referee did not correctly assign a penalty to the Yekaterinburg goal in the 77th minute, considering that the rebound after the player’s shoulder was insignificant and did not affect the further movement of the ball. In the match of the 21st round, Rubin — Rostov Vitaly Meshkov did not correctly appoint a penalty at the gates of «Rostov» in the 11th minute of the meeting, since the guest player's hand was in a natural position and did not increase the body area.
