Beşiktaş head coach, Sergen Yalçın, has criticized the officiating following their 1-0 derby loss to Galatasaray.
The Black Eagles were undone by Victor Osimhen, who scored the decisive goal with a header just before halftime.
Despite picking up the first booking of the game in the sixth minute, the Nigerian forward avoided a second yellow after deliberately kicking the ball away during a stoppage.
Yalçın did not hold back in expressing his disappointment with the refereeing.
“There’s another side to this. Actually, we need to talk about that. You know, football has rules. There are yellow cards and red cards. These cards are put in the referees’ pockets. They’ve put a referee in the VAR room. He tells the VAR referee, ‘If you see something, intervene,’” Yalçın told the club’s official website.
“The main referee might not see it, but you intervene. That’s why he’s sitting there. Now, Sane should have been sent off in the 20th minute. Osimhen should have been sent off with a second yellow card, that’s for sure. So how is this game going to be played?
“In Trabzon, you send Bilal off in the 30th minute. You send Orkun off in the 20th minute in the Fenerbahçe match, but you can’t do it here. How is this going to work? How is this game going to be played? I’m very curious. In my opinion, football has become too political.”
