Asgari: Persepolis’ penalty and Naft’s reduction to 10 men was the referee’s mistake

In an interview with the sports reporter of Fars News Agency, Hossein Asgari said about the way of judging Ali Safaei in the match between Persepolis and Naft Abadan: The dismissal of the Naft Abadan player was completely wrong. The Naft player disturbed the goalkeeper and in the end a direct hit should have been announced in favor of Persepolis, and showing the second yellow card to the Naft player and reducing this team to 10 players was completely wrong.

He added: The second wrong decision of the referee happened in the second half when the referee announced a penalty in favor of Persepolis, which was not correct at all because the player had tackled and his hand was folded and the ball hitting his hand was not a penalty at all. Safai also made a poor judgment in this match.

The former head of the referees committee said about the ball crossing the line and the second goal of Naft Abadan: it was very difficult to recognize this scene because you cannot say that the ball was not scored and you cannot say that it was scored because there was no camera on the goal line.

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