A classic is rarely finished when the referee blows the final whistle and even less if there is a ghost goal, like Lamine Yamal’s in the 28th minute at the Bernabéu. Barça can request that the match be replayed in its entirety. It was President Joan Laporta who put this option on the table. “If it is confirmed that it was a legal goal, as we think, we will go further and ask for the replay of the match, as has happened in a European match due to a VAR error”.
The precedent Laporta refers to is a Anderlecht-Genk (2-1) that the Belgian Disciplinary Committee, after a complaint from the visitors, ordered to repeat in February. However, the locals appealed to the Belgian Court of Arbitration for Sport, which on March 5 rectified, and ruled that the match was valid and upheld the initial result.
In his message to the official channels, the manager proclaimed that Barcelona feels helpless, as he complains that there are different and contradictory criteria depending on which teams. In fact, the president even hints that Real Madrid’s 11-point lead in the league is the result of refereeing mistakes. According to him, the Barcelona team has been “damaged” in “numerous wrong actions”, while other refereeing decisions “have benefited our rival”. “Together, both show this distance of points that is at the top of the League”.
On Sunday’s classic, the president picked up the indignation of Xavi and Ter Stegen and asked that the audios of the conversations between Soto Grado on the pitch and Sánchez Martínez in the VAR be made public and demands that all the images come to light used in those minutes of deliberation of the play of Lamine Yamal and Lunin. He does not even rule out taking legal action.
The RFEF listened to the complaints and uploaded a 6-minute-39-second video with the conversations of various plays on the networks. “Penalty confirmed”, they tell him from the VAR in the penalty with which Madrid makes it 1-1.
With this result comes Lamine Yamal’s spur shot in a Raphinha corner.
-For me it doesn’t fit in at all – is the first voice heard by the member. He is his sidekick.
– We are doing a 360 to look for the evidence because we don’t have it. Lunin’s body is covering us – they call Soto Grado over the phone, who advises his colleagues not to run.
– We are in no rush, none. It is a very important decision. It’s best to wait. [ Look] all the cameras, all of them – implores the one from La Rioja, who feels like in the VOR room they are rejecting the shots. “This one is not good for me… This one either… Nothing…”, he feels. Until they finally make the decision.
– We have no evidence that the ball has gone in. Therefore, we will resume with a corner – is the conclusion of Sánchez Martínez.
And that’s how it’s done on the lawn.
There is almost no dialogue in two more dubious plays. “Yellow”, they confirm to him when Camavinga knocks down Lamine Yamal in the middle of a run. “Trampled down? Nothing nothing. Review completed”, they tell him about Rüdiger’s obstruction of Fermín in the area.
At the club they don’t understand that Soto Grado didn’t go on TV even once. “Since we have it, let it always be used to avoid making unfair decisions”, asks Laporta, who considers that the complaint “is not free or advantageous”, but that it was time to raise his voice.
