On April 29, Beijing time, the fourth round of the Chinese Super League ushered in the focus match, Beijing Guoan played Shandong Taishan at home. This is the most watched match of this round besides the Shanghai derby. In this match, the Football Association arranged Tang Shunqi from the Chengdu Football Association as the referee, and Ma Ji and Sun Kai as the linesmen, but this referee group caused a lot of controversy, especially the amateur penalty of the linesman once caused Cressan's anger.
The penalty of the lineman in the first half caused dissatisfaction among the Taishan players. It was in the 40th minute of the game, Beijing Guoan midfielder created an offensive opportunity with a pass, and the ball found Yang Liyu and formed an attack, and rushed all the way into the box and formed a shot.
After successfully preventing Yang Liyu's attack, Taishan player Zheng Zheng sought a referee theory, because Yang Liyu was in an obvious offside position in this attack, although the lineman's delayed lifting became the norm after the appearance of VAR, but Zheng Zheng believed that Yang Liyu's obvious offside was not suitable for delayed lifting, which caused them to return to defense and consume a lot of physical energy.
In the second half, the amateur decision of the linesman caused even greater dissatisfaction.
This is the 56th minute of the game, Cressan took the ball on the left and advanced all the way to the front, Guoan foreign aid Jiang Xiangyou returned to the defense and directly poked the ball away from Cressan's feet, but after Liu Binbin got the ball, the linesman directly raised the flag to signal Liu Binbin offside.
After seeing that the referee penalized Liu Binbin for offside, the commentator who commented on the game directly said that the penalty was wrong, and the commentator believed that the ball was stabbed away by Jiang Xiangyou instead of Cressan passed, so although Liu Binbin was in an offside position, he did not form an offside.
After being misjudged and losing an opportunity to attack, Cressan was also angry and complained directly to the linesman, this time the linesman did not have the hesitation of the previous delayed lift, the expression on his face was very resolute, and he stretched out his right hand to signal Cressan to calm down. After Cressan approached step by step, the linesman had to turn and walk away.
The lineman who made such an amateur penalty is named Ma Ji, and according to the information found on the official website of the Chinese Football Association, Ma Ji is an international assistant referee from the Hubei Football Association.