MOSCOW, Aug 17 ESC RFU) recognized as correct the decisions of the team of referees headed by Pavel Kukuyan in the match of the fifth round of the Russian Football Championship between St. Petersburg «Zenith» and Moscow CSKA. offside, a goal against Zenit was canceled. Also, the capital club asked to evaluate the moment with a possible violation of the rules on the defender of the army Igor Diveev in someone else's penalty area in the 90th minute of the meeting. «The referee correctly canceled the goal of the Zenit team in the 80th minute of the match. According to all members of the commission, CSKA attacking player Jorge Carrascal was in an offside position when the ball was passed to him by a teammate, as his legs were in line with the penultimate player of the defending Zenit team Dejan Lovren, and his upper body, leaning forward, was behind the line outside VAR did not intervene correctly, since none of the available video angles of this episode gave reason to doubt the correctness of the assistant’s decision to fix the position on the sidelines at the end of the attacking phase,” the message on the RFU official website reads. -meter kick against the team «Zenith» in the 90th minute of the match. violations of the rules by the player of the defending team «Zenith» Rodrigo against the player of the attacking team of CSKA Igor Diveev in single combat with him for the ball due to the fact that the defender was accented by the first to play the ball in the correct manner. The commission unanimously supports the decision of the referee to continue the game in this episode,» the experts concluded.
