Commenting on his team's 1-3 defeat to Veres Rivne in yesterday's match of the 6th round of the Ukrainian championship, Chornomorets head coach Roman Hryhorchuk once again touched upon the issue of refereeing.
Roman Grigorchuk"Of course, the sending off in the tenth minute of the match affected the team's performance. And it had a negative impact.
Are you asking me about the referees? I don't want to talk about it. Because I said everything after the game with Vorskla. But it probably needs to be repeated again. Everything I said is my observations, my feeling of what is happening. In my opinion, not everything is going well in this area. I don't see any progress. Everything is getting worse and worse. There is no point in talking, we need to act.
I do not believe that we do not have qualified judges. But even those whom I consider qualified, in my opinion, work worse than they could.
Before the game, I forbade the players to fall down, fake, talk to the referees, put pressure on the referees from the bench. This is the minimum we can do. But we have a lot of questions for the referees. I want to know whether they are really independent in their decisions. I can only guess about this. I do not believe that they make such decisions on their own.
We need to develop football. But for now, there is no progress to speak of. We need to figure it out together. If the referee made a mistake, let him say it later: "I made a mistake". And then we won't have any questions," said Hryhorchuk after the match against Veres.
