In the final third match of Group F at the European Championship in Germany, the Czech footballers lost to Turkey 1:2 after a long period of weakness and did not advance to the knockout stage. Several decisions of referee István Kovács did not escape the attention of the media and fans. The server iROZHLAS.cz focused on the contradictory moments of the key match of Group F and described the situation with the help of the current interpretation of the UEFA rules.
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Romanian referee István Kovács gives Antonín Barák a yellow card | Photo: Fabian Bimmer | Source: Profimedia
First yellow card for Barák
In an attempt to get the ball, the Italian Fiorentina midfielder used his hands in a duel with Ferdi Kadioglu in the attack half of the Czech team and pulled the Turkish defender’s shirt. The fact that Kadioglu won the duel did not benefit Barák either, he got rid of the Czech midfielder and then tried to develop an offensive action.
First yellow foul by Antonín Barák | Photo: Annegret Hilse | Source: Profimedia
Red card
Antonín Barák earned the second yellow warning after he tried to slow down the pace of the match in the center circle and found one of the Czech defenders with a back pass. Against was a duo of Turkish midfielders – Salih Özcan and Hakan Çalhanoğlu.
It was the first named who became the victim of a “footballer”. Özcan managed to poke the ball out of Barák and the Czech midfielder had no time to land anywhere else but on Salih Özcan’s ankle. Under current UEFA rules, this foul is classified as dangerous with a potential red card. So the yellow card was at least justified.
“The first foul was just stupid. The second one was unlucky, but it’s a mistake that significantly affected the match,” thinks Pavel Horváth, football expert of Radiožurnál Sport, about the key moment.
In an interview with Radiožurnál Sport, the captain of the Czech team Tomáš Souček described the situation immediately after the second yellow card was awarded by the Romanian referee István Kovács.
“I told him that he got the first yellow for the first foul and the second for the second one. They usually don’t give out like that, he immediately pulled them out, so I asked if it was such a foul, and he nodded everything off,” captain Souček told Radiožurnál Sport.
Dva fauly Kenana Yildize
In the 36th minute, Juventus forward Kenan Yildiz stepped on Robin Hranáč’s ankle. The situation took place near the goal of Jindřich Staňek after a defensive intervention by Hranáč. Yildiz, trying to keep the ball in the field, stepped on the Pilsen stopper’s Achilles tendon. However, he could breathe a sigh of relief soon after, as he only saw a yellow card from the Romanian referee for a rough tackle.
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Under current UEFA rules, this foul is classified as dangerous with a potential red card. In confusing situations, an assistant with a video is available to the head referee, so the question is whether the video referee Tomasz Kwiatkowski saw the foul in the same way as the set regulations determine.
In less than ninety seconds, Yildiz was again the target of attention, this time after a fight with Vladimír Coufal. Under current UEFA rules, dangerous play is one of the circumstances in which a referee is allowed to punish a player with a caution. The Romanian referee failed to do so, despite Yildiz’s swing being wide. However, the intervention lacked intensity, but a dangerous elbow play is still one possibility to earn a yellow card.
“Then there was the same foul on Vladimír Coufal, an elbow, we all saw that it was the second yellow card, and he didn’t give it,” Captain Souček was upset.
Kucht’s unrecognized goal
Hašek’s men, even in a weakened state, pushed for the goal and at times it was not clear who was actually playing the power play. Kuchta even got the ball into the net in the 82nd minute, but the referee had already blown the whistle for an offensive foul.
This is an absolute scandalous divorce
4x wrong decision in 3 seconds:
1. Handball by Kadioglu
2. no foul by Kuchta
3. Handball by Demiral
4. Scene whistled too early pic.twitter.com/hJcbHN6gBS— JM (@JongBVB) June 26, 2024
However, from the slow-motion footage, it can be seen that Turkey defender Ferdi Kadioglu made a handball before the game was interrupted. However, it is not clear how the referee or video referee would have assessed the situation – although the hand was not in a natural movement and on the body, Kadioglu shot his own hand during a defensive tackle, and as it is written in the current UEFA rules, if the ball bounces off a player and lands on his hand or arm, it should not automatically be considered a penalty.
This is followed by a duel between Kuchta and Kadioglu, when the forward of Sparta Prague pushed the defender away with a movement against his body, and the referee Kovács evaluated the situation as a foul and interrupted the game by blowing his whistle. With regard to the widely supported coordination with the video referee, it would be sensitive if Kovács let the action finish and then ran to consult with his advisers – after the referee has interrupted the game, the video assistant can no longer intervene.
Another defender of Turkey, Merih Demiral, behaved in an unsportsmanlike manner in the subsequent duel with Kuchta – lying on the ground, he reached for the ball and wanted to spoil the Czech striker’s chance.
Judge Kovács could have given the yellow card to the defender. UEFA rules state that if the referee considers the circumstance to be worse than a standard offense – for example, hitting the ball in an unnatural position – it is up to the arbitrator to punish the player with a yellow card. And since the offense was committed inside the penalty area, it is also possible to reward the opponent with a penalty kick.
At the end of the already decided duel, an unruly Turkish fan ran onto the pitch and already after the final whistle after pushing both teams forward Tomáš Chorý received a red card, Tomáš Souček and Arda Güler also received yellow cards.
As he noted
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Most yellow cards at a single EURO match since 1980:
17 – Czechia v Türkiye at #EURO2024
10 – Portugal in France at EURO 2016, Germany in Czechia at EURO 1996
Istvan Kovacs was a busy man tonight, that’s for sure! #CZETUR pic.twitter.com/PhAQxBhTvg
— Sofascore (@SofascoreINT) June 26, 2024 “>server Sofascore, the Romanian referee István Kovács awarded the most penalties in the history of European championships. A total of eighteen yellow cards and two red cards were given in the match.
You can hear the live broadcast of all the matches of the elimination fights on the station Radiožurnál Sport, the server iROZHLAS.cz follows the matches in detailed online reports.
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