Spartak Head Coach Guillermo Abascal Expresses Frustration with Referee Sergey Karasev after Match against Zenith

Spartak head coach Guillermo Abascal was very dissatisfied with the referee Sergey Karasev at the end of the match of the 5th round RPL with Zenith.

The match “Spartak” – “Zenith” ended with the defeat of the red and white with a score of 1:3. Abaskal did not like that Karasev showed a yellow card to Spartak midfielder Mikhail Ignatov at the beginning of the game. At the post-match press conference, the Spanish coach spoke emotionally about this.

“I want to mention important details that influenced the fate of today’s match. The first is Victor’s injury [Мозеса], it was a forced replacement. The second point is the shameful decision to show a yellow card already in the 9th minute to Mikhail Ignatov. What it is? What is this?! We pressed, everything was fine, we took the ball, we had chances, we attacked – and suddenly the referee shows this yellow card, absolutely unreasonable. Basically, it kills the game. Because a footballer can no longer go into pressure in the same way. This was the reason for the replacement of Ignatov. He played well, but having a yellow card, we could no longer put pressure like it was before,” said Abascal.

We present to the attention of Sport24 visitors a video with Abascal’s reaction:

Previously it was reported that the ex-footballer of “Spartak” harshly criticized the coach after the defeat from “Zenith”: “Abascal was completely disgraced”.

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