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Istvan Kovacs may carry the badge of an elite international referee, but after the chaos and outrage surrounding Rapid Bucuresti’s 3-2 win over Dinamo Bucuresti, the real question is no longer how high he can climb. It is whether he should still be trusted with major European matches at all.
What happened in this derby was not a minor error, not a debatable fifty-fifty call, and not the sort of routine controversy that follows every heated title or play-off clash. This was the kind of decision that poisons a match, distorts the result and leaves one side feeling robbed. In a game of this magnitude, that is unacceptable. For a referee presented as one of Romania’s finest, it is devastating.
The decisive scandal came in the 67th minute, when Rapid’s Andrei Borza appeared to shove Dinamo’s Alexandru Musi in the build-up to Claudiu Petrila’s goal. Kovacs allowed play to continue, the goal stood, and the entire direction of the match changed in an instant.
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