A week after the refereeing errors in the game between Hapoel Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv, the referees’ association finally announced that Hapoel Haifa was indeed deprived when Ido Shachar’s legal goal was not approved against the leader of the table. If the goal had been happy, it is possible that the Yellows, who were ten players in those minutes, would not have been able to win and the Reds from Carmel would still have left themselves a chance to be in the top playoffs.
The official announcement did not go out to the media or to the teams, but at a professional conference held for the Premier League referees, national guide Haim Yaakov said that referee Eli Hachmon was wrong to cancel the goal and listened to video referee Aviad Shiloah. Yaakov sharpened procedures regarding the difference and explained that one should check the distance between the defender and the striker during the shot and see if there is an attempt to play the ball.
In other cases analyzed by Yaakov, it was stated that it was not right to keep Nir Klinger away in the game between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa. The end.
