Spartak Moscow beat CSKA in the 28th round RPL thanks to the Quincy Promes double. But the Sunday derby will be remembered for a long time, first of all, not by the game, but by the refereeing and the scandal involving Alexander Sobolev and Willian Roshi.
For those who did not watch the last meeting, a small digression into what happened. On Sunday, Spartak defeated CSKA in the 28th round of the Russian Premier League (RPL) with a score of 2:1. In the 69th minute, the chief referee of the match, Sergei Karasev, sent off the field for unsportsmanlike behavior of the forward of the “red-whites” Sobolev and the defender of the army team Roshu. Sobolev earned a removal for an indecent gesture towards the Brazilian. The CSKA defender received a red card when, in a conversation with the referees, he repeated Sobolev's gesture, trying to explain what happened.
Whether the referee's decision was correct will be decided by the expert-judging commission and the control and disciplinary committee of the RFU, to the meeting of which both players are called. Many did not understand the reason for such harsh sanctions against the CSKA player, but absolutely everyone condemned Sobolev's behavior.
Lawlessness «This is lawlessness,» Kirill Breido, director of communications of the army club, described the incident, emphasizing that CSKA would apply to the ESC for clarification. head of the RPL Alexander Alaev. — Unless I understood the situation with deletions. According to Sobolev, everything is clear, but not so much with Rosha. Here it will be necessary to understand the KDC. Let me just say that such episodes do not color football. It is clear that emotions, but such gestures have no place on the field and the television picture.
The former owner of Spartak, Leonid Fedun, did not make harsh statements, but noted that the football player of the “red-whites” deserves sanctions. I would have fined him after the game, but other people decide. Sobolev played a whole match, but does his childhood play in one place, «said Fedun.
As if having heard the former boss of the Red-Whites, the head coach of Spartak Guillermo Abascal assured that Sobolev would be punished. «Definitely, he will be punished. What Sobolev did does not correspond to the values that are in Spartak. But I hope you also saw Roshi's gestures and his harshness towards Sobolev,» the specialist noted.
“If this happens again, the person will not play. First of all, this is respect, this is education. This is not tennis, not athletics, where every man is for himself. Here (in football) everyone plays in a team and you need to act for the good of the team. has already happened a second time, Martins was also punished for his behavior in the past. If this happens again, they will watch football on the bench,» Abascal added.
Zidane and Materazzi Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final.
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“Honestly, the episode reminded me of a famous moment in my day: the 2006 World Cup final between France and Italy. If you remember, as a result of the conflict between Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi, the provocateur remained on the field, and the victim was kicked out. The decision on Alexander Sobolev and Willian Roche was made at the suggestion of an assistant who saw and heard everything with his own eyes and could give a clearer description of the events. I think Karasev made the absolutely right decision: if you don’t want to play football, then leave the field,” Khusainov said.
Rosha himself, after the end of the match, called his removal a blatant stupidity, and Sobolev called a clown, emphasizing that his the red card should be cancelled.
«The «Spartak» player showed a colossal disrespect to me. There are women and children at the stadium. We need to treat these people more respectfully. He turned to me and touched his causal place. I showed the judges what was applied to me, and I was sent off. This is a flagrant mistake of the judge. We need to watch a replay, I did not try to show this gesture to the judge, I I tried to tell the judge what they showed me,» Rocha told reporters.
The former president of Spartak Andrei Chervichenko was not as reserved in his comments as Khusainov. “The refereeing made the meeting as scandalous as possible, I did not expect this. It was doubly surprising to see such a performance by Karasev, who fell below the plinth, and with him the rest of the team. I don’t understand why they continue to put Pavel Shadykhanov on VAR, he’s blind! «
“I think Sobolev should have been sent off even earlier for two yellow cards. Apparently, the judges are just afraid of him. As for the removal of Roshi, I just never saw this! A person repeats what his opponent just showed him, and he is removed. Plus an episode with a penalty, which was not even close. A real shame! In the off-season, you need to deal with him, clean up the judiciary. They simply do not understand another language, «added the source of the agency.
Sobolev's defenders The players of the “red-whites” reacted to the scandal somewhat softer. «As for Sobolev, you saw everything. He is such a person with us. I wish him to be a little more restrained. He is a good person, but sometimes he lets the team down,» midfielder Roman Zobnin said.
«I saw this gesture,» said the captain «Spartak» Georgiy Jikia. — I respect the words of Abaskal about Sobolev, such a gesture is unacceptable anywhere. Sasha and I did not see each other in the locker room and did not discuss this topic. We have management and coaching staff who will probably want to talk.»
But defender Nikita Chernov felt that the Spartak forward did not have to apologize for his behavior. “Did Sobolev apologize in the locker room? I didn’t even see him. Maybe he talked to the coach. This is not the time to apologize. We won.” — said the ex-footballer of CSKA.
«This is called promiscuity,» quotes the words of the former president of the Moscow «Locomotive» Olga Smorodskaya «Rating Bookmakers». — Some kind of idiot. Very confident in his star status. I don’t even want to talk about him. He deserves a long disqualification. I didn’t understand why Rocha was removed.
Sobolev himself later apologized for his act.
“I apologize to everyone who was at the stadium , watched the game on TV, for my intemperance! These are emotions, and what I did is simply unacceptable! I understand that the screens had children, women and fans who love football. I promise that this will not happen again. I really really sorry,» Sobolev wrote in his Telegram channel.