:format(webp):quality(100)/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prosport.ro%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F11%2Fbanner-whatsapp-prosport.jpg?w=860&resize=860,194&ssl=1 "Cristi Balaj ran against the referee, according to CFR Cluj")
CFR Cluj narrowly won the first leg of the double with Pafos, score 1-0. Cristi Balaj made a fuss against the referee, after CFR Cluj – Pafos 1-0! He was scandalized by the central’s decisions: “It’s shameful!”.
Cristi Balaj made a fuss against the referee, after CFR Cluj – Pafos 1-0!
The president of Cluj, Cristi Balaj, made a fuss, despite the fact that the team coached by Dan Petrescu prevailed in the first leg and leaves with the first chance to qualify for the return leg. Balaj was extremely unhappy with the refereeing manner of the Serbian center, Novak Simovic. Balaj was dismayed that Simovic did not see a penalty for CFR in the second half when Panagiotis Tachtsidis was pushed in the Pafos box.
“I say that the phases are different. Just that the entry on Tachtsidis was an entry where the defender looked for him and went straight into his stomach. He forced his way into it and required a disciplinary measure.
In the 58th minute, for much less, both players entered the same, fouled after their goal was empty. The result?! The referee warned two players from CFR! The fact that such a blunder is made at such a stage of the competition. Such a referee, who walks around Cyprus quite often, and in Tachtsidis’s phase you don’t respect the VAR protocol. Why stop such action? Are you afraid that it will be empty? As long as protocol obliges you. And if he scored a goal, he had the VAR to find out if he was right or not. It is shameful to make such a delegation. There are images that put this phenomenon to shame, in this competition.
Deac was eliminated. And to the extent that I admit it, because I have no way of changing. It doesn’t seem fair to me to acknowledge when decisions are against us, and when injustices are done to us to overlook. We got the most out of this match in the given conditions. We had a penalty that had to be awarded!” said Cristi Balaj at Digi Sport.
Source: www.prosport.ro
