MOSCOW, 10 Aug. The Expert Referee Commission (ESC) recognized the correct removal of the goalkeeper of St. Petersburg «Zenith» Daniil Odoevsky in the fourth round match of the Russian Championship against Grozny «Akhmat» (0:0), according to the website of the Russian Football Union (RFU). The meeting of the commission passed on Tuesday. The experts concluded that Odoevsky, realizing that he did not have time to play the ball, made contact with his raised leg with the leg of Akhmat midfielder Lecha Sadulaev, which caused him to fall. «The members of the commission believe that the actions of the Zenit goalkeeper are regarded as a foul inadvertently, however, in tactical terms, this foul was to deprive the opponent of a clear goal-scoring opportunity, as the goal was undefended, the attacking player had the ball under control, and the angle from which the attacker could potentially shoot at the goal was sufficient for a clear goal hit the opponents' goal,» the statement says. Also, most members of the ESC RFU consider the decision of the referee Sergei Ivanov not to send off the Akhmat player Alexander Troshechkin in the 11th minute of the game after a foul on Wilmar Barrios to be erroneous. The EX RFU recognized the decision of Vitaly Meshkov to mark the goal as correct at the gates of the Moscow «Dynamo» in a meeting with the Samara «Wings of the Soviets» (2:0). In the match «Rostov» — «Orenburg» (2:1), the referee Vasily Kazartsev correctly appointed a 11-meter kick into the gates of the guests.
