“I still don’t know if the shoes were black or yellow.”
As usually happens whenever he loses in Anoetaa few days later Barcelona continues to criticize the work of the referee in the match he lost Real. Despite the failure of the game for the second year in a row in Donostia (last season they won 0-1 in the last minute) thanks to a goal confirmed by Var, and as incredible as it may seem, the Blaugrana now continue to distrust video refereeing. This time it was decorationhis sports director, who expressed a feeling of being lost in an interview Sports world. When they benefit him, he usually feels much more comfortable: “I think VARand it’s not about this party, it still hasn’t solved the problems that it was supposed to solve. Some things have improved, but in others we still have one person’s interpretation. Technology has not yet been able to outpace human decisions. We still make controversial decisions like Anoetawhich, of course, is not true. I don’t understand, but if it’s semi-automatic, then it’s not automatic, someone has to press the button. Like with a car, we don’t know whether it’s an automatic or a hybrid… We need to explain something. Why semi-automatic? I’m lost. I still don’t know if the shoes were yellow or black… We don’t want to go there because we don’t want to go with excuses. But the question arises: what happened? Where is the error, if there is an error? If not, nothing happens, let them explain to us, but they must explain something, because we are a little lost in what semi-automatic is, is there any influence of VAR, if the referee really can’t do anything”…
The person in charge of Var Clo Gomezhe replied yesterday in Chiringuito: “There are ten additional cameras in VAR which make things easier in the game. From them a recreation is created, which is a visible image. He VAR and it’s not the machine that tells the operator the frame.” That is, there is no room for human error here.
The Portuguese coach went even further and asked to change the system, although the referees continued to explain to him that there was no mistake and that Lewandowski was offside “by the nail”: “It won’t fix what happened in the game. We don’t know what would have happened. Perhaps it was the score 0:1 and the way the team played. Real They make it 2-1 or we make it 2-2. The truth is that this goal was disallowed and what they are saying is wrong. But football must develop from here, otherwise we are lost. If this is a semi-automatic task that is ultimately useless, then we return to another system. Those in charge need to tell us something. We say this not because Barça has been harmed, but to improve. If it is a mistake, we must find a solution, explain why it was wrong and what could have happened. Var had to make decisions clearer and make football easier for us, even those watching at home, to understand and explain to them. A lot of things have already changed and we have benefited from, quote, semi-automatic play in a few offsides. We’re not going to go into detail, but they should explain it to us. I’m not speaking as a sports director. Barça But I, as a football spectator, would like to better understand why such decisions were made, and if it is semi-automatic, then what is the risk that there will be no offside. They have to explain something to us.”
TO Clo Gomez He got a laugh on a late-night TV program when he explained that “it’s semi-automatic, meaning it’s not automatic because it goes through a test to confirm the images VAR”