He was already enjoying the goal. Then the judges looked at the feet. Strange criminal [WIDEO]

In the match of the 22nd round of the Russian Premier League FK Nizhny Novgorod – emotions started only after the 70th minute. Then Christopher Martins scored the first goal for Spartak, and a moment later Ibrahim Juldoszew replied.

An unusual situation in the Russian league. Promes hit from the penalty spot but the goal was not recognized

In the 79th minute the visitors could score the winning goal. They received a penalty kick from the referee, and the ball was approached by an experienced Dutchman who hit the net and was already enjoying the goal, but then VAR entered the action.

After the intervention of the VAR assistants, the referee Ivanov went to the monitor, where he saw that Promes touched the ball twice while taking a penalty kick, hitting it in the right leg. Consequently, the goal could not be awarded and the match ended in a 1-1 draw.

– At first I didn’t even understand what happened. For the first time in my life I saw something like this – said Aleksandr Mostovoy, a former football player of the Russian national team.

The last few weeks have not been good for Spartak Moscow. The club got stuck in the middle of the Russian Premier League (eighth place), and in addition, due to Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine, was thrown out of the 1/8 finals where he was to face the German RB Leipzig.