APOEL and in fact through Prodromos Petridis ( HERE his statements) expressed very strong complaints about the refereeing -and- the match with Ethnikos, with the president of the blue and yellows even talking about huge mistakes in the first half.
Nevertheless, Christakis Skapoullis in the show “Goals and Spectacles” of RIK analyzed only one phase, and this was in the second half and specifically the hand of Savic (79 ′) for which a penalty was given (via VAR) to the National who had tied at 1-1. No reference was made to the penalty requested by APOEL in the 18th minute for the overthrow of Okriashvili.
Read what Skapoullis said about this phase:
“The instructions are for the assistant referees not to raise a flag at this stage. He communicates with the referee and tells him there is a hand. Like the VARistas. Now in essence. There was definitely hand contact with the ball. In these cases the point in question is whether the hand made the move for the ball or whether the ball found the hand. The other point is that the VARistas is instructed to summon the referee in case of applause. To call him means he is convinced that there is a hand. We can not say that he unfairly whistled a penalty. “As the camera shows us the phase, we can not make a credible decision.”
