MOSCOW, September 19 General Director of the Nizhny Novgorod football club “David Melik-Huseinov said that the team will seek the truth and ask questions about the refereeing in the cup match with Spartak Moscow.
Nizhny Novgorod on Tuesday suffered a home defeat from Spartak (0:3) in the fourth round match of the group stage of the RPL Russian Cup. The head coach of the Nizhny Novgorod team, Sergei Yuran, said that the club would appeal to the expert refereeing commission of the Russian Football Union (ESC RFU) following the match. The specialist drew the attention of journalists to the “uppercut” that was not noticed by the referees, which defender Viktor Alexandrov received from a Spartak player in the 10th minute.
Russian Football CupSeptember 19, 2023 • starts at 17:15Completed
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Melik-Gus Einov published video recording of this episode.
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"The video shows what is called non-football. And there were many such episodes during this match. We will seek the truth, we will ask questions. This will make not only us, but all Russian football more honest. We understand that questions will not change the score on the scoreboard. But if we agree with this, then we will turn into MMA sooner or later,” Melik-Huseinov wrote in his Telegram channel.
