The Real Madrid – Barça at the Santiago Bernabéu had everything a good Clásico should have. Goals, of course. And yes, also controversial. Controversy that neither the VAR could nor knew how to resolve. Controversy that once again puts on the table the question of why there is no ‘hawk’s eye’, or goal technology, in LaLiga. Because not a single camera responded to one of the key plays in a game.
Everything happened in the first part. In the 29th minute, Barça had a corner in their favor. He had a play that drove Real Madrid crazy in El Clásico. Ball that went to the corner, ball that could enter Lunin’s goal. One came in, thanks to Christensen, and who knows if he wasn’t the only one…
Because it is not known if yes or no. In this action, Lamine Yamal finished off a ball sent from the corner and Lunin, completely inside the goal line, cleared the ball as best he could. Immediately, the Barça players turned towards Soto Grado… and Soto Grado put his hand to his ear.
The VAR, without response
To the ear. Let’s see what they said over the earpiece. Let’s see what they told him from the VOR room. From there, and in the broadcast, the images of the play were seen. In one of them nothing could be seen because Lunin covered the ball. In the other two… it was not clear.
It could be that yes. It could be that not. But it was not visible in any shot whether the ball passed or did not completely pass the goal line. Given the impossibility of correcting the referee, what he had decided beforehand rules.
And what he ordered was a new corner in favor of Barça. It was what he pointed out at first, and that is where a ball ended up that the VAR could not determine if it entered or did not enter Lunin’s goal.
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