Football Club Barcelona suffered its second defeat of the season in the League at the Anoeta stadium. If in Pamplona the accused was Hansi Flick for abusing rotations in a field as complicated as El Sadar, in San Sebastián he was a goal disallowed to Robert Lewandowski due to a tight offside the focus of all the analyses.
In the 12th minute, the Polish striker managed to take advantage of a bad rebound from the local defense to beat a helpless Álex Remiro. However, after review The VAR invalidated the play due to an illegal position.
The initial disbelief turned into indignation on the part of the Barcelona fans after the image of the semi-automatic offside became public. In it it was clear that The Barça striker had the toe of his boot in front of that of his marker. A millimeter difference, but one that responds to how the standard is currently applied. Referee Cuadra Fernández validated this verdict and prevented Barça from taking the lead at the Anoeta stadium.
The controversy came when social networks began to compare the frozen television image with the ‘frame’ that used semi-automatic offside technology. They did not match and many fans saw an identification error on the footballers’ boots or even manipulation when choosing the images.
Hansi Flick, Barça coach, was not satisfied with the decision and conveyed this to the referee upon returning from the locker room to resume the match after the break. Perhaps after seeing the play in the booth the German coach He asked the referee team for explanationswhich quickly settled the visiting coach.
“It’s not the referee’s fault”
Later, in the press room, Flick referred to the controversial move: «The disallowed goal was a wrong decision, but we have to accept it». The German explained his conversation with the referee at half-time and assured that “he was not that angry.” «It was not offside, it is not the referee’s fault. “It would have been a different game, but it wasn’t our day,” he added.
«The responsibility for this defeat is ours.. We could have played better, after the first 15 minutes, the possession was not so good. It’s a defeat but the previous games were fantastic and I was happy and today we finished and I told the team, we finished together. Nobody has made a bad gesture and we have tried to score the goal until the last second,” he added on a strictly sporting level.
