St. Petersburg, August 13, Sergey Yaremenko. The head coach of the Moscow football club CSKA Vladimir Fedotov said that, in his opinion, the canceled goal of midfielder Nikita Ermakov against St. Petersburg «Zenith» in the match of the 5th round of the Russian Premier League should have been counted. Petersburg ended with the score 2:1. In the 80th minute of the match, with the score 1:1, CSKA launched a counterattack, as a result of which midfielder Nikita Ermakov sent the ball into the goal of Mikhail Kerzhakov, but the main referee of the meeting, Pavel Kukuyan, canceled the goal due to an offside position, confirmed after a VAR check. “In the first half, nothing worked out. Only the skill of Igor (Akinfeev) on the goal line did not allow the opponent to open the scoring earlier. The two goals conceded turned out to be identical, we did not finish the moments. In the second half, the substitutions turned the tide of the match, something began to look like the football we aspire to play,» Fedotov said at a press conference. «After the penalty, the game went on a collision course, where we scored another goal, which was canceled. «We know there are no VAR lines right now. As they say, some people see offsides and others don't. Things could have turned out much better for us. In a flash interview, I was told that the episode with the goal was not easy th. In my opinion, there was no offside. I can’t say anything about the moment with (Igor) Diveev (about the unassigned penalty – ed. note), I haven’t seen a replay,” Fedotov added.
