Well-known journalist Mykola Nesenyuk commented on the Euro 2024 qualifying match between Ukraine and North Macedonia (2-0), which took place yesterday in Prague.
- "In my opinion, the best referee in the Ukraine-North Macedonia game was Slovenian referee Vinčić. It is to him that we owe the bright football spectacle that this match was. And here's why.
In the games of our championship, in addition to the players of the opposing teams, you always involuntarily expect a "surprise" from the referee, who may "overlook" a blatant violation of the rules and vice versa - "find" this violation through joint efforts with the operators of the referee's video assistant. When it's easier, you always take into account the "windage", i.e. the referee.
After the miracles of the Ukrainian referees, it was a pleasure to watch Vincic's actions in the Prague match. In fact, it was nice to watch the football itself without thinking about the fact that the referee could suddenly "do something stupid" like we did. Vincic saw everything clearly without any VAR. It's easy when your job is to just record rule violations where they exist and not to record them where they don't. When the task is not to "help" one of the teams.
This was quickly realised by the players as well - referee Vincic did not fall for any of the "little football tricks". As a result, we got a normal football game with a normal referee. How we got used to it at home!" Nesenyuk wrote on his Facebook page.
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