CFR Cluj suffered a 2-1 defeat against Sepsi in the 20th round of the Romanian Super League and Kiros Vassaras (President of the Central Referees Commission) said that a mistake had been made in the match at Sfantu Gheorghe.

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The referees mixed up the goal lines that Sepsi used to beat CFR Cluj

Damascus made it 2-1 in the 85th minute, but the goal should not have been disallowed as Mario Rondon (who was involved in the phase) was offside when he touched the ball. Here you can see the phase.

After the match, Vassaras admitted that the referees drew the wrong lines: Mario Rondon (forward Sepsi) was confused with Matei Ilje (defender CFR).

Thus, Florian Alexandru Vishan (assistant), Julian Dima (arbiter in the VAR room) and Alexandru Filip (VAR assistant) will be replaced in the following delegations.

“Immediately after the final whistle of the Sepsi OSK vs CFR Cluj match on Sunday 17 December, CCA immediately received all the information and obtained the images from the VAR camera to thoroughly analyze the phase after Sepsi scored. 85th minute.

As a result of the analysis, it turned out that an error was made. The blue line was intended for the forward, and the red line was for the defender. Although the linesman is a replay operator who is part of the VAR technical team, the VAR referee and the VAR assistant cannot be absolved of blame because they did not realize the error, even though they very well noticed the possible offside position. The assistant referee will also bear the consequences, even if the offside was small, not noticeable in the dynamics of the phase.

We have already held the first discussion in the CCA and decided to replace all three judges from future delegations. In the next period, we will also hold a meeting with the technical team to see how we can avoid such mistakes in the future.

In conclusion, the goal was scored from offside, an unfortunate error by the refereeing team, and I would like to apologize on behalf of CCA to those affected by this error!” – Kiros Vassarasquoted by FRF.

Superleague standings

1. FCSB 41 points / 20 matches

2. CFR Cluj 33 / 20

3. University of Craiova 33 / 20

4. Fast 32 / 20

5. Sepsis 29/20

6. U Cluj 29/20

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13. Poli Iasi 23 / 20

14. UTA 23 / 20

15. Dynamo 10 / 19

16. Botoshani 9 / 19