The head of the refereeing department of the RFU sees no reason to check the referee Kukulyak on a lie detector

There is no reason to test the referee Yevgeny Kukulyak on a polygraph, calls for this from the leadership of Dynamo Moscow were made on emotions, Pavel Kamantsev, head of the refereeing department of the Russian Football Union (RFU), said on MATCH PREMIER.

Kukulyak in the second half of the match of the second stage of the quarterfinal of the Path of Regions of the Cup of Russia “Zenith” – “Dynamo” (1:1, 4:5 – penalty) did not assign a penalty after a foul in the penalty area by Zenit midfielder Claudinho, who hit his leg forward “Dynamo” Tyukavina. Kukulyak watched the episode after the VAR prompt, but did not record any rule violations. After the game, the leadership of the Moscow club urged Kukulyak to believe in a lie detector.

– In this case, I see no reason for such a check. It seems to me that what the Dynamo representative said about this was based on emotions. I can understand these emotions, I myself would not want to be in their place at that moment. But we don’t have any operational information or anything else to carry out any checks,” Kamantsev said in the 8-16 program at MATCH PREMIER.

On March 16, Kamantsev told Match TV that the expert referee commission under the President of the RFU unanimously recognized that the referee should have appointed a penalty. As a result, it was decided to remove Kukulyak from work for some time.

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