Croatian referee insists Super Eagles star merited a red card before netting match-winning goal

The Nigeria worldwide was the hero for his facet on the weekend, but it surely might have ended otherwise if one other referee had been in cost

Croatian refereeing professional Marijo Strahonja has prompt that Tremendous Eagles defender Chidozie Awaziem was fortunate to keep away from receiving a crimson card within the first half of Hajduk Cut up’s 1-0 win at Rijeka on Sunday.

Awaziem picked up the primary yellow card of the HNL matchday 11 encounter for a tough deal with within the fifteenth minute.

Six minutes later, the previous Porto man was concerned in one other foul, flattening a Rijeka attacker who might have had a sight of objective.

However centre-referee Igor Pajač opted to not present Awaziem a second yellow card and thus a sending-off.

Nevertheless, former FIFA referee Marijo Strahonja believes his colleague made the mistaken name, and Awaziem ought to have been dismissed.

Per Sportklub, Strahonja stated, “The Nigerian (Awaziem) intentionally held the participant, pulled him for greater than three seconds, and the Rijeka participant was in a promising scenario. Completely, yellow card.”

Awaziem could be delighted that Strahonja was not the referee in cost because the 25-year-old popped up early within the second half to web the successful objective for Hajduk Cut up.

The Nigeria worldwide, on mortgage from Boavista till the tip of the marketing campaign, now has two objectives in seven video games.

The previous Nantes defender scored his first objective for the Whites within the 2-1 conquer Lokomotiva Zagreb on August 21.