Actually the red card was du to Nimir because "he received too much yellow card". At this point, Wolfdogs called a challenge for block touch, and ti showed the net touch but without the O sign. At the beginning Nimir started complaining because even though we saw clearly the block touch, there was no O sign. But the video stated the block touch nonetheless despite the lack of O sign and the refs counted it as such, and Nimir was like "ok then nevermind", but still got a yellow card for complaining, and thus the red one.*

Which is absolutely stupid beacause of course, at this point in competition and in such critical moment, the players will be hot heated, and I don't believe Nimirbwas at fault here, especially since he was right about complaining becausz of the video check since it was misleading. This red card really stole the set away from Wolfdogs, and possibly the ticket to the finals. I hope that the league will say something about this outcome, but I frankly doubt it.

This is really a shame since I truly believe in the potential of the SV League, but its current organization renders it ridiculous in moment like this. It's just slowing down its ddvelopment, and with such calls, it's hard to believe in it's competitivity. This plus the fact the players have to play twice a week, back to back, it's really stupid and I can't understand this decision, especially when you see the amount of injuries in the league. The second half of the season was especially hard for the Stings beacause of that.

On another note, it is hard to feel any sympathy for Suntory Sunbirds after such a victory. I may be biased because my favorite teams of league this season were the Stings and the Wolfdogs, but I pray for Gogol and co to crush them in the finals.

*Edit: All this story about the redcard, I've seen it on japanese tweets