To whistle or not to whistle

The goal and all that...

Mr. Kralovec stuck to a strict diagonal without diverting from it. He did so, probably because he judged his fitness as not good enough to keep runnung in order to shorten his distance from certain events. This got him twice stalled far away, while his runnung didn't enable him to keep with the pace of ball and players. The first case was in the 38th minute. He was stale on the right-hand side of Monaco defense, while a long ball was sent from defense to attack on the left flank. Kralovec was out of the tv picture, when Martial (Monaco) and Chiellini (Juve) tussled for the ball inside Juve's penalty-area and fell on the ground. The ref made the reasonable decision not to blow the whistle and let the game flow, as he was very far (the replays from much closer angles showed Chiellini, who was in front, grabbing and pulling down his opponent, but I suspect most referees, even closer to the situation than Kralovec, would have adopted his policy, or worse - would have penalized the Monaco player deeming him shoving and pushing from behind). Kralovec found himself in almost the same situation in the 55th minute, when again two players went for a long ball, this time on the edge of the Monaco penalty-area, about 5 metres from the penalty-spot. This time, Carvalho (monaco), running while watching the on-coming ball, stumbled upon Morata (Juve) who ran along-side to him. No foul, no intention, just a collision, an accident. This thme the ref decided to call from afar (though from a shorter distance than in the previous incident), and awarded a penalty-kick to Juventus, which was converted and decided the final result. In a certain way, Monaco had what to moan about, feeling the crucial decisions, especially the penalty-kick, went against them. I think he had no good view in both cases and should have been consistent in not calling. Otherwise it was not a bad performance, a typical Kralovec one, for better and for worse. The ars, The veteran Slovak Slysko and the Czech Wilczek weren't great either.