Sunday, October 20, 2024, 9:25 p.m.
After Getafe’s draw against Villarreal at La Cerámica (1-1) as a result of a controversial penalty called by García Verdura after being called from the VOR room, Marcelino García Toral harshly charged against the main VAR referee, Figueroa Vázquez. “A referee arrives in the VAR who is relegated, and if you are relegated it is because you are not very good, and he calls the referee, just for the sake of prominence, and lets the referee whistle,” the Villarreal coach launched in reference to Figueroa Vázquez .
“I’m sure that if instead of a young referee it had been a more expert referee I wouldn’t have called him (García Verdura), or I wouldn’t have paid attention to him,” added Marcelino, who was shown a yellow card “for telling the referee that you must always act with personality. “That penalty cannot be called in football, because then there would be ten penalties per game,” he said. “It seems ridiculous to me, but the referee has acted out of corporatism, which is what we usually see, and the VAR referee has been the protagonist of something that did not happen but that he wanted to happen,” insisted the Asturian coach.
The scorer of Villarreal’s goal against Getafe, Santi Comesaña, was also very critical of the decision to award a penalty in favor of Getafe for Raúl Albiol’s slap at Bertug Yildirim in the 86th minute. “I thought it was a shame. This is not football. The ball doesn’t even go there, Raúl (Albiol) doesn’t even see it, he doesn’t know the force with which it goes, and you give a penalty? It’s not the first time it happens. It happens many times. The one who shouts, the one who simulates is rewarded… These things are constantly rewarded and they will continue to happen,” lamented the Galician footballer from Villarreal.
«I told the referee during the game. I told him: ‘You were blowing spectacularly until the VAR came in.’ Since the VAR came in, the game got out of hand. Then he began to whistle the screams instead of what he saw. We didn’t tie, the VAR tied the game. The game is going away because the VAR decides it,” said Comesaña. «I don’t even think that the referee believes that it is a penalty, but since the VAR calls it, he has to blow it. “He is half forced to whistle it,” Comesaña cried. The protagonist of the penalty, Raúl Albiol, did not want to influence the action, but he did point out: “Cheaters are also favored.”
