Shakhtar defender Valeriy Bondar shared his impressions of the match against Polesie in the Ukrainian league and spoke about the episode in which he got injured.
Photo: shakhtar.com"I believe that we fully deserved to win: the game was under our control, we tried to score our own goals. I had two moments that I did not realise - it's a skill that needs to be worked on, and somewhere my fault, because I could have opened the scoring and changed this match, and then we would have finished with a more positive result.
A controversial episode with a violation of rules on me? I would like to say a lot of things, but we had many moments this season, when our players got red cards for the same offence. And I am sure that in that episode it was a pure red card and the game could have turned out very differently. I also think that whatever minute the foul happens, whether it's on the 10th or 50th minute, it's a penalty. I can give examples with Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Artem Bondarenko, Georgiy Gocholeishvili, when they received red cards in the first half.
We have VAR, we have qualified referees who do it, but there is a lot of talk about referees, and we have a lot of controversial moments related to this team, which allow them to score points. Apparently, this says something. So we cannot leave these moments unattended, there should be a committee that will look at such episodes and give an appropriate assessment of the referees - both those who sit on VAR and those who referee the match. If you look at the moment there, it's a straight and clean red card in my opinion. Our players have been given such cards, and I do not know why Polesya are not given them. Probably, something is done in our football and outside football, let's put it this way," Bondar is quoted by Shakhtar's official website.
