The club from Bulgaria believes that Red Star is responsible for the “boiling” of Barbosa and the interruption of the match.
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“Dress Rehearsal” Red stars in the preparations in Cyprus, it was interrupted in the 67th minute when there was a serious physical conflict in the middle of the field. After a sharper start by Uroš Spajić, he enraged Dijogo Barbosa from Botevo and then punched a Zvezda player in the face, and Vladan Milojević made the decision to withdraw his team from the field.
At that moment, Crvena zvezda was leading 2:1 with goals from Sherif Endiaje, and because of Barbosa’s treacherous kick – no one in the camp of the Serbian champion was in the mood for football anymore. The referee tried to convince Milojević that his passions would calm down, but the Zvezda coach did not want to hear it and ordered his players to leave the field, most likely in fear that by the end of the game there would be similar conflicts that could lead to injury.
However, even though the video shows that while the Zvezda players are calming down the situation – Barbosa hits Spajić with a hook, the coach of the small Bulgarian team Hristo Janev actually accuses the Red and Whites of being responsible for the escalation. “This was the second consecutive difficult match for us, we played well, but I’m not satisfied with how it ended. It’s not nice that the match didn’t end because we wanted at least a draw. Maybe our good play annoyed the opponent, who then reacted nervously“, emphasized the coach of the club, which currently occupies the penultimate place in the championship of Bulgaria.
The Bulgarians accuse the red and whites: Zvezda is to blame for the interruption!
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“We know that Crvena Zvezda is a big club, but this is also a preparation for us and we wanted to play a good match. Maybe they expected us to just walk around the field and win easily. No, we played and worked well. The scenes that happened in the end they are not pleasant and I do not support them, there is no place for that in football, but such tensions did not come from our side. I respect the opponent, but they must also respect us.”he added.
Let us remind you that Crvena zvezda returned to Belgrade from Cyprus last night, without the three footballers who left it, and recorded five victories on the “paradise island”. Against Hloraka (3:1), Zalagaerseg (1:0), Spartak (3:1), Mladosta (2:0) and Botev (2:1).