Whatever happens, this will be the VAR League. The refereeing criteria was again called into question after the decisions in the match between Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid (0-1). Always connected, always looking at each other, Barça and Madrid have been analyzing every decision for days. If Piqué hinted that it would be impossible to win the League because the VAR always sees things with a white filter, Ramos replied no. But when the VAR served to keep a goal from Messi on the scoreboard, Piqué, laughing, began to joke on the lawn of Villarreal drawing imaginary lines with his fingers. Then, he preferred not to talk about the VAR, because it was up to the president. Josep Maria Bartomeu broke his silence to explain that “I am sorry that the best league in the world does not have an equitable VAR. After Covid-19 it is not and, although our results have not been good, always favors the same team “. Bartomeu, who also said that Leo Messi “will end his working life at Barça. I will not give details because we are focused on the competition, but I can say that there are negotiations with many players in the squad”, could be sanctioned by the RFEF to doubt arbitration decisions. Setién for his part, was more moderate, despite admitting that “I believe less and less in the VAR.”
Bartomeu: “The VAR always favors the same team”
The action of the day took place in Bilbao. An unreviewed action that could have ended in a penalty in favor of Athletic revived unease with the refereeing decisions and the role of the VAR. With the action not indicated by José Luis González González, there are already twenty matches in which Real Madrid do not receive a penalty against. What the referee whistled was a penalty in favor of the whites, after a step inside the area of Dani Garcia to Marcelo that Ramos made the only goal of the match. A few minutes later, controversy erupted. In a very similar action in the other area -although without the ball-, it was Ramos who stepped on Raúl García, this time without the VAR intervening, and the game continued between the protests of the Basque team . Iker Muniain, for example, exploded. “We are already seeing how the tone is in these days and in favor of which team these situations are opted for. Everyone should draw their own conclusions, ”he said. His teammate Dani García added via Twitter: “If one whistles, the other too! The VAR is loading football! ”
The VAR also made an appearance in Vila-real. In the goal of Gerard Moreno (1-1), the video referee had to intervene to confirm that the striker was in the right position. In the image in which it had to be confirmed that the player was enabled, the entire player and the defenses that marked the offside line could hardly be seen. Since the resumption of competition, refereeing proceedings are raising a lot of dust. With only four days left until the end of the championship, the controversy is assured, no matter what happens. The second season of the VAR, instead of consolidating this tool, has called it into question.
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