Three CSKA penalties and Krasnodar’s crazy goal

The arbiter of the meeting, Sergei Ivanov, appointed three penalty kicks at the gates of the southerners, each of which the army team managed to realize. Wards of Vladimir Fedotov in the first 10 matches of the new season in all tournaments suffered only one defeat – in St. Petersburg from Zenit.

RPL. 9th round. Moscow. CSKA 4:1 Krasnodar. Goals: Carrascal – 30′, Chalov – 45+7, Ramirez – 47′, Medina – 62′ (pen), Gaich – 90+1′.

About the match, in which three (punched – four) penalties were appointed + eight yellow cards were shown, it is definitely impossible to say that it was not interesting or not fighting. The only Moscow team that played in the capital on City Day did not spoil the holiday.

I will make a reservation, in my humble opinion, only the third penalty of CSKA was indisputable, but as they say: the referee, and especially the VAR, knows better.

At the 30th minute of the match, the goalkeeper of “Krasnodar” Safonov with his right knee hits the ankle of the army man Chalov. Initially, even before watching VAR, the referee of the meeting, Ivanov, gives a yellow card to the striker for simulation. Chalov really began to collapse before touching the goalkeeper. Then there were views of the “TV”, very long, and the cancellation of the card to the army team, the “presentation” of its goalkeeper to the southerners Safonov and a penalty kick at his own gate. Carrascal was flawless from the point – the leather sphere ended up in Krasnodar’s net.

Not at the 45th minute of the first half, the second 11-meter “punishment” for the guests followed. When trying to “carry out” a football projectile away from his penalty area, Olusegun “inadvertently” touched the leg of Carrascal, who was bursting into the same place. Again lengthy “disassembly”, again protests-discussions. And in the end, Chalov makes the score 2:0 in favor of the hosts of the city, which celebrates the 875th anniversary of its founding.

The third, most indisputable penalty kick came in the 62nd minute. When filing in a commotion free-kick Kayo played with his hand. Everything is clear on the fact of the penalty, but during the execution of the kick by Medina there was a controversial moment that can be protested. The goalkeeper of the guests Safonov coped with the blow, but the penalty kick was killed because of the army team who burst into the penalty area early. Medina’s second attempt was accurate: the spotted one settled comfortably in the net of the Krasnodar gate.

There was also a moment with a “possible” penalty. Before the second 11-meter shot against Krasnodar, there was an episode that VAR also watched, but the army team was “forgiven”.

Decoration of the same match was the only goal of the southerners. At the 47th minute, the guests’ left-back Christian Ramirez fired from behind the penalty area with a non-working right foot and hit the corner exactly. The Ecuadorian, it seems, beat straight from his homeland, it was very far from the army gates. Although Igor Akinfeev jumped for the ball, he could not get the round one, immediately “reprimanding” his defenders. Ramirez scored his second goal this season, although before that the legionnaire had not scored in the RPL even once in all six years in the Krasnodar T-shirt.

Already at the end of the meeting, the newcomer of the army team, Willian Rocha, passed to Oblyakov, who made an assist to Gaich, who scored the fourth goal of CSKA.

It is also worth noting that all three penalties for the army team were taken by different players.

“It was a tough game psychologically, we didn’t make it. It was a timid start, not as active as we used to. We’ll figure out. Yes, we lost, but nothing terrible happened. I will not comment on refereeing moments, only football. This needs to be added. In such matches, the mental state comes to the fore. Such matches require experience,” said Krasnodar head coach Alexander Storozhuk at a press conference.

“We knew that we would face a serious opponent who knows how to use the space. Our task was to contain the players and prevent them from using the space. We left the locker room, a little lost concentration. The missed goal brought us back to life. We defended well confidently and used the space in the opponent’s half,” Vladimir Fedotov, the main soldier, summed up the game.

Vladimir Sabadash.

Photo by Vladimir Golikov