Refereeing expert: The dismissal of Esteghlal defender was right / The referee made a hard and correct decision

In an interview with a sports reporter of Fars News Agency, Hossein Asgari stated about the way Seyed Reza Mahdavi judged in the game between Esteghlal and Peykan: The referee had a good judgment overall. Of course, some mistakes were made, but these were not key and effective mistakes. The most important scene of the game was the dismissal of the Brazilian defender Esteghlal, in which the referee made a difficult but correct decision.

He added: “Unfortunately, some of our referees do not fully implement the rules, but this referee made the right decision and the dismissal of Esteghlal player was right because the attacker had passed the defender.” Overall, this referee gets an acceptable score because he did not make a key mistake. However, after Esteghlal became 10, he made mistakes unintentionally and due to a lot of pressure on him, and failed to announce some mistakes. But due to the fact that the game was heavy and the spectators put a lot of pressure on it, this referee got a passing score.

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