World Cup
About SHATSKIKH Wales game: “Yarmolenko 100% sanctioned”
Former player and representative of the coaching staff of Kyiv “Dynamo” Maxim Shatskikh Commented on the scandalous episode in the 2022 World Cup qualifying playoff match Wales – Ukraine.
“It was a total penalty, a touch into the box? It was! But I don’t know why they decide that way. Maybe it seemed to them that he fell a little picturesquely, there was no such contact with such a fall, but there was a touch to his leg and because Yarmolenko ran after him. The Wales defender did not see him. , shot Andrei in the leg, here is a 100% penalty.
I don’t know why at such a level, such an experienced referee, well, maybe people were sitting in VAR… I don’t want to say anything like that, but for me there was a 100% rate. penalty,” said Shatskikh.
Controversial foul on Yarmolenko, 40 minutes.
Source: Sport UA
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