A WALK THROUGH THE LEAGUE DAILY
After three league rounds, the table still looks strange (it is led by a newcomer from Brno ahead of Bohemians, who played a playoff to stay in the top competition back in the spring), but after the wins of all three favorites (Pilzno in Mladá Boleslav against Hradec, playing by ten – 2: 1, Slavia in Jablonec – 3:2 against the equally weakened “Peltov” and lively Sparta in Letná against Olomouc – 2:0), everything is slowly getting back to normal.
As with the referees and their verdicts – after Kucht’s and Cedidl’s fouls, the key moment in the 0:0 match between Hradec and Plzeň is now being dealt with. The event’s commission of judges supported the verdict of judge Klíma, which significantly helped the Victorians. In our (not only) opinion, however, the whole thing she just messed up very awkwardly, because if the foul by defending Pilsen Sýkora was not whistled, then a free kick had to be ordered (or given an advantage in the game) for an offensive foul by Ryneš from Hradec Králové. But neither happened…
Gross match fixing?
The isport.cz server described the situation from Saturday evening’s duel as follows on Sunday:In the twenty-ninth minute, with the score 0:0 in the Viktoria penalty area, Matěj Ryneš fell to the ground after a fight with Jan Sýkora. He immediately asked for a foul. Chief referee Tomáš Klíma, however, remained silent. The game turned the other way, Tomáš Chorý was tripped by Vojtěch Smrž in the starting solo escape. Red card! Hradec demanded a VAR correction. He wanted to cancel the suspension and play a penalty. But Václav Štěrba did not require a review of the situation with the video.”
“It was gross match-fixing,” Hradec’s Matěj Ryneš was furious after the match. “I was taking the ball, we were holding each other, I wanted to put it in front of him, but he slipped and hit me. I think it was a clear penalty. I don’t know what the referee saw there. It was grossly influencing the match. Subsequently, there was a foul in the half that had not yet been whistled, and then the red card came,” described Ryneš, who was also supported by the Hradec Kralove coach Miroíslav Koubek. And also the midfielder of East Bohemia Petr Kodeš: “I won’t hide behind anything, it was a clear penalty. I don’t blame the referee, I don’t know what angle he had, what position he was in. However, I take it as grossly influencing the match, instead of a penalty we get a red card and we go to ten.”
Why did Pigeon take the reverse?
After the break after the first half, the station’s expert David Holoubek commented on the intervention in the O2 TV studio:It’s an essential thing. We don’t have to be completely proficient in the rules to see that this is a foul in the penalty area on Ryneš, so it is. In my opinion, a clear foul, in addition, the red was subsequently dropped. It should have been a penalty and canceled red, that’s how I perceive it. Nedelní Blesk also joined him in its main article.
But…
“Sýkora slipped due to a slight tripping of the Hradec player and then caused the Hradec player to fall. From my point of view, it was not a penalty kick.” Tomáš Klíma explained his verdict in an interview for O2 TV Sport.
And the commission of referees, led by Radek Příhoda, saw it in a similar way, which already published this opinion with an accompanying video on Sunday: “In the opinion of KR FAČR, referee T. Klíma in the match Hradec – Plzeň did not correctly order a penalty kick for the home team. From the available footage, which was unfortunately not played on TV, it is evident that it was an offensive foul. The home player tripped the visiting defender, who only then touched his leg.”
And Doloubek took a step back on Twitter…
In studio @O2TVSportCZ I was convinced of the penalty…
After watching this video I take my words back…. pic.twitter.com/cpxLDvocT4— David Holoubek (@HOLAS8) August 14, 2022
“In the studio I was convinced of the penalty save. After watching this video, I take back my words.”.
So why didn’t judge Klíma whistle anything?
Colleague Radek Šprýnar agreed with him on the isport.cz server, and some fans praised Holoubk’s new attitude. However, many (not only on Twitter) were against it.
From some opinions, we select the strongest ones:
Robert Pecha: „I see there a foot thrust into the run, which the attacking player subsequently trips overe.“
Feeder: “When I want to shoot, a player puts his foot in there and I kick him, so what? So it’s a foul… In addition, Sýkora didn’t give it away in any way from his position.“
Orou Saki: „Sýkora first slipped under and then chopped off his legs. Clear penalty.’
However, fan František Studnička hit the nail on the bench on Twitter: „When an offensive foul, the whistle should have been blown, right?!’
And Tomáš Petruk completed it: „Exactly. Or the referee should have signaled an advantage. But the referee did nothing. In addition, at the beginning there was clear obstruction in Ryneš’s game.”
And therein lies the trap into which Příhoda et al. trying to hold their colleague Tomáš Klíma, they caught them themselves.
When an offensive foul, the whistle should have been blown. Or the referee should have signaled Pilsen’s advantage. But neither happened.
If it were the other way around, would Pilsen kick a penalty?
And then there’s another important fan one addition. “In my opinion penalto, already at the beginning to Ryneš Sýkora stepped on his foot – and please in lime! If it happens the other way around, the whistle is blown right away – and that bothers me,” football fan Ondřej Kavan wrote on Twitter. He captured the feelings of many fans in the Czech Republic. I’m not even surprised at them.
In my tomorrow’s “Tuesday morning” column, by the way, I will address the topic of why the LFA management postponed Viktoria Plzeň’s Saturday league match with Zbrojovka Brno due to the Champions League playoff with Karabakh and whether or not it is beneficial for Czech football and why?
