What has been widely discussed since Sunday evening has now also been sanctified by the Referee Commission of the Football Association of the Czech Republic (KR FAČR). Sparta Prague defender Martin Vitík should not have been sent off in the Prague derby against Slavia. The intervention, after which the Leten defender received a second yellow card, was assessed incorrectly.
The Spartans didn’t understand, the experts in the TV studio didn’t understand, and even some Slavist fans on social networks didn’t understand. Why did Spartan defender Martin Vitík get a second yellow and then a red card at the end of Sunday’s derby against Slavia?
Referee Ladislav Szikszay, who drew both cards, explained after the match that the penalty came for kicking home defender Tomáš Holeš, not for an attack on goalkeeper Antonín Kinski, as many thought at first. But no one saw the contact with Holeš.
And KR FAČR didn’t even see him. “In the 93rd minute of the match, based on incorrect information from assistant referee No. 2, the referee incorrectly awarded a second yellow card and subsequently a red card to player No. 41 of the visiting team. It was not a yellow card offense. According to the protocol, VAR can intervene only in the case of a direct red card, therefore he did not intervene correctly,” she explained her view in an official statement.
