One disputed situation, a big minus for the director and a dilemma about the VAR room and checking the second goal

Sharp on the tongue Rade Đurovićreferee expert, analyzed yesterday’s duel between Crvena zvezda and Partizan in his own way (2:0) in the semifinals of the Serbian Cup.

– The match between the eternal rivals went without a hitch. I think that all the circumstances, both the result and the situation in relation to the result, went in the referee’s hand, even though he started under fear like his colleague a few days ago. One big minus goes to the director who didn’t show us many interesting situations more than once. In the case of the first two goals of Zvezda, the assistant referee reacted perfectly, and the VAR room quickly confirmed the second goal. The dilemma remains whether she checked the situation with the first goal. If it is, kudos to the speed, and if not – very unexpected and brave, although it turned out well. The only controversial situation occurred when, after a shot by the Zvezda attacker, the ball hit the hand of a Partizan defender. Thanks to the director for replaying the video from a bad angle, but from the available video, it seems to me that the defensive player slides in the allowed way, with his hands in a natural position in relation to the start, and that he was not able to avoid playing with his hands. Taking that into account, I am of the opinion that the game should not be interrupted, regardless of the fact that some will explain to us how there are such and such recommendations from Europe. They never showed one. The only important thing is that past practice has shown us that the result has a lot of influence on how the judge will rule in these and similar situations, as well as the fact that they see much better or at least differently in relation to what they judge. That is why the only solution, I will repeat for the 100th time, is to collect these and similar situations and show them to the actors before the season and explain to them how to react so that everyone knows and is ready. I repeat again, this is not done for obvious reasons. Zvezda is the better team and they deserved to win, and Partizan, despite their talent in attack, is catastrophically bad in defense – the popular wrote on Twitter Cancer.