Mattias Gestranius, a national referee expert and former top judge of the Football Association, expresses his opinion on the rise of Monday night.
Oliver Reitala has also whistled in the Euro fields. Aop
Referee Oliver Reitala lift For Joona Vetel The red card on Monday night in Töölö, after a top match between HJK and Ilves had been played for over 30 minutes.
The exit caused a beard as Veteli tried to cut off the HJK attack by sliding after the ball had been busted by Judge Reitala to HJK.
Slide Vicente Besuijenin Also, the shoes were not very outrageous.
If the outing situation does not appear on your device, you can watch it from here.
– I’ve never seen a more outrageous trick from the referee in football than the referee Reitala’s trick gives a red card to Ilves Vetel. I suggest a long flute to the judge. It seemed as if it had decided beforehand, former Mayor of Tampere Kalervo Kummola comment on the situation in the message service In x.
Also the screen narrator Brother of engström The solution was scandalized.
– By no means a place to run! That is a yellow place, Engström said.
Football Association’s National Referee Specialist Mattias Gestranius is on the same line.
– We have discussed the situation internally, and we thought the tacking was unclassifying. It should have been warned, Gestranius says.
But not to give out?
– We couldn’t find clear grounds for that.
Should Reitala have been whistling when the ball hit him?
– In a rule technology, this solution is possible if the referee did not feel that HJK would benefit clearly. That’s where the ball came from HJK’s player and hit the referee Reitala, where it bounced back on the HJK player. Then, in principle, the game can continue.
How would you have acted in the situation?
– I think it would have been a better solution to break the game and continue with the referee’s ball to HJK.
Gestranius is a former top judge who has whistled all the way to the Champions League.
Five red
This year, Reitala has whistled four HJK games (two in the League Cup and two in the Veikkausliiga). In all of these games, HJK’s opponent has received a red card.
On the other hand, HJK has not received any red card from Reitala this year.
What thoughts do such an imbalance evoke?
– I can’t take a stand on this because I do not remember all these situations where the red card has come from. However, the referee ranks according to the situations, not the teams, says Gestranius.
Reitala has been a referee this year in 12 matches. In them, he has distributed a total of five red cards. According to Gestranius, the Football Association does not intend to investigate the exits given by Reitala.
– I think it would be quite special if we now went to investigate these based on this one sentence, because I do not remember that previous reds would even have been discussed.
Reitala was selected last year as the referee of the Veikkausliiga of the Year. He has also whistled European games in the Conference League.
VAR to help
HJK eventually won Monday night’s top match 5-1. Ilves, who played underdog, completely coagulated at the end of the game, as the club scored all its goals in the last 20 minutes.
– Unfortunately, referees sometimes make mistakes. If we had been in use, we would probably have played the whole game against eleven eleven, ”says Gestranius.
VAR is used this season in YLE TV games, in some Finnish Cup matches and qualifiers. The total assistant video referee will be used in 13 games this year.
In the future, VAR technology is to be used more widely, but it will require money.
– We are currently calculating which price tag would be per team. I have a pretty confident feeling to get a cost -effective solution, but the Veikkausliiga will eventually make the decision, Gestranius says.
Reitala was elected referee of the Veikkausliiga of the Year in 2024. Tomi Natri / AOP

