It was the 12th minute when Michal Hlavatý was writhing on the ground in pain. The winter reinforcement from Pardubice was able to relax and Oscar tried to get into a fight with it. However, the Liberian midfielder did not catch the situation and accidentally stepped on Hlavaté’s left ankle. The head referee Lukáš Nehasil was called to the video and the verdict came very quickly – a red card.
“I saw it wrong. I thought there was a small step. But when I saw it on the video, there was no other solution. Of course, I regret that the decision was not made immediately on the field,” said the referee on the Oneplay broadcast.
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Oscar Dorley saw a red card.
“Oscar is by no means an insidious player. It was an unfortunate moment in the heat of battle,” expert Jan Rajnoch apologized to the Slavia midfielder in the Oneplay studio. “The decision is correct, but very unlucky for Oscar,” agreed Antonín Rosa.
It was indeed an unfortunate moment for the Liberian representative, which sent Slavia into a numerical weakness in the 12th minute. “Imagine if Hlavatý got injured, didn’t finish the match and Oscar stayed on the field. That would be unfair,” added Rosa.
Also, according to coach Trpišovský, it was a correctly assessed situation on the part of the head referee. “I didn’t actually get a red flag, but when you stop it, it didn’t look good. As I know Oscar, it was unintentional. He didn’t know where he was stepping,” said the coach at the post-match press conference. “Situations like this happen, we supported him in the cabin.”
On the other hand, it should be mentioned that Oscar has already been sent off for the fourth time in 230 matches in a stitched jersey. “So much? That’s one red card for sixty matches, that’s enough. But he doesn’t foul much, he plays cleanly, unfortunately he has these footfalls. Most of the time it’s tackles with the sole, which we don’t want and I’ve already blamed him for it,” explained Trpišovský.
“But mainly I want to mention that Míša is healthy and nothing happened to him. It looked ugly and Oscar himself is the most devastated by it. But we have to be careful about it,” added the coach.
However, the coach’s emotions escalated even more in another passage of the match – specifically in the 36th minute. At that time, Slavia was already weakened by the expelled Oscar. Lukáš Provod drove past Samuel Šimek on the right side, who was reaching for the Slavia midfielder in the fight. But the referee immediately spread his hands to signal that it was not a foul.
“We all know Provod and we know that he doesn’t just fall. At that moment, you have in your head that it’s a foul. If there was no contact, he wouldn’t have gone to the ground. Five minutes before, an offensive foul was called on Choras, which wasn’t even a save. The same border guard then doesn’t call a foul on Provod and doesn’t react. There were big emotions, especially when you play at ten,” Trpišovský explained his indignation at first half.
“The defender pushed Provod a bit, that’s true. But it wasn’t so serious that a penalty was whistled. Rather, he didn’t maintain his stability, moreover, I think it was before the goal. It probably wasn’t a penalty, but I understand the emotions that they could have seen it differently from the bench,” Rajnoch, an expert, returned to the situation in the Oneplay studio.
After the match, the referee Nehasil, for whom the contact was too small, commented on the possible penalty intervention. “There was certainly contact, but for me it was minor. There are many such situations in the match. I think that the attacking player also went to the ground relatively willingly. For me, it is not a penalty kick,” he said clearly.
