In yesterday's match of the 2nd round of the Ukrainian championship between Lviv's "Karpaty" and Donetsk's "Shakhtar" a draw was recorded, 3:3. And as it often happens (with rare exceptions) in cases when the "miners" fail to take the maximum points, representatives of "Shakhtar" began to express their outrage about the refereeing.
Photo — Evgeniy KravsIn this case, the defenders of "Shakhtar" Valeriy Bondar and the sports director of the Donetsk club Dario Srna voiced refereeing complaints on air. Both published posts on social media regarding the third goal of "Karpaty". At the beginning of this game episode, Donetsk defender Yefim Konoplya put his body against Karpaty defender Pedroso and ultimately ended up on the ground. As a result, the Brazilian legionnaire of Lviv seized the ball, made a cross pass, and Igor Krasnopir scored the decisive goal of the match.
However, the dissatisfaction of "Shakhtar" representatives concerns the struggle between Konoplya and Pedroso: the Donetsk side believes there was a foul.
"The beginning is set. The guys in the blue uniforms (the color of the refereeing team's outfits for this match, — ed. note), "wonderful" work, as always," wrote Bondar.
"Nothing changes, the same story. High level of refereeing," echoed Srna.
Meanwhile, the complaints of both Bondar and Srna are a soap bubble. The full episode in dynamics shows not only the contact/fight itself but also Konoplya's obvious "dive", which was so clumsily and carelessly "drawn" as a foul that it was too evident how he flew upwards from an alleged shove forward-downwards — this can be clearly seen by closely watching the feet of the "Shakhtar" player.
Decisive goal in the match "Karpaty" — "Shakhtar":
