Unsurprisingly, the last Clásico continues to cause a lot of discussion in Spain. Sunday evening, Real Madrid won (3-2) against FC Barcelona, on the pitch of the Santiago-Bernabéu stadium. But the Catalans have been crying foul since the final whistle since they believe that a goal should have been awarded to Lamine Yamal. On a shot from the young Blaugrana talent, the ball, pushed back by Andriy Lunin, crossed the line. But the Spanish refereeing body, which cannot rely on goal line technology, indicated that the ball had not entirely entered the cages. There Cadena COPE has also obtained the audio exchanges between the referee and the VAR on the subject of this contentious action in the eyes of the Culés. “We have no proof that the ball went in, restart with a corner”, we told the man with the whistle. This will not calm Barça, who are ready to ask to replay the match as Joan Laporta confided in a video published on social networks.
“If during the analysis of these documents, the Club notices an error in the assessment of the action, it will undertake all necessary actions to repair the damage caused, with the possibility of requesting to replay the match if the goal was indeed valid. Furthermore, according to the RAC1 , FC Barcelona has already decided to resort to ordinary justice so that Lamine Yamal’s ghost goal is granted. Joan Laporta has already warned that they will go all the way to seek justice for a goal that they believe should have been added to the scoreboard. This has already happened in Europe due to a VAR error. I also want to emphasize that even if we focus on this action, we do not agree on other disputed facts of play where VAR was not consulted., explained the Catalan president. And a new revelation about this meeting between the two sworn enemies still shakes Spain this Wednesday.
A major camera was not working!
Indeed, among all the functional cameras set up for this great poster of Spanish football, one of the most important did not work on the action of Lamine Yamal. Mediapro and LaLiga’s television production for last Sunday’s Clásico consisted of a total of 36 cameras, but the aerial shot above the goal line of Real Madrid’s Ukrainian goalkeeper Andriy Lunin to get a computer shot via hawk’s eye technology was recorded only from the corner camera and not the opposite corner, as would normally have worked to capture Lunin from the front. So this very important camera just wasn’t working. This is what Jordi Basté, a well-known Spanish journalist, explained this Tuesday in the program “El Món” on Catalan radio. RAC1.
In this way, although there were other images from more open angles that suggested that the ball shot by Lamine Yamal had gone in, the referee in the VAR truck, José María Sánchez Martínez, had informed the main referee, César Soto Grado, that there was not enough evidence to know whether the goal was valid or not for Barça. Several days after the match, the battle raged between the different institutions for justice to be done. As a reminder, the Technical Committee of Referees generally refuses to provide video refereeing images to any La Liga team which could request them as was agreed at the time of the introduction of video refereeing. There will therefore be no exception, especially since the CTA considered that the arbitration of César Soto Grado had lived up to the bill.
