Refereeing bosses secretly admit that Betis, Cadiz, Almeria and Granada suffered from offside errors | Relief

VAR decisions caused a lot of controversy last season.. While the previous campaign did have its share of confusion, the controversy has continued this season. Wondering what was going on, Relevo discovered that the tool, according to more than a dozen participants working in the VOR room, “looks like Paint, but it’s crap.” Referees are exposed after their decisions in record time because they have a slingshot to detect offsides, despite the man in charge of the VAR project in Spain, Carlos Clos Gomez, publicly reassuring the system’s reliability on several occasions. .

If yesterday morning Relevo revealed how the system works with which the Technical Committee of Referees (TCA) has in recent years provided referees to identify offsides from the VAR room, now it is the turn know the teams affected by mistakes that CTA management itself admitted in an internal meeting over the past few days. At an extraordinary meeting using the Kaltura tool, The CTA management reacted with concern to the offside mistakes made in the final stretch of the season.. Although the weekly meetings usually involve all the field and assistant referees of the First, Second and F Leagues, in addition to the referees who work in the VAR, this time only the head referees and the referees from the video referee room. was present, not counting the assistants, who are the key figure in signaling offside.

The meeting, led by Carlos Clos Gómez, responsible for the VAR project in Spain, analyzed the mistakes made in the last days of La Liga. Cadiz, Almeria and Granada – the three relegated clubs – in addition to Betis, suffered from offside decisions from the VAR room, recognized by the committee itself, albeit only domestically.

However, Clos Gomez himself publicly assured Jot Down a few weeks later that “the public can feel absolutely comfortable drawing lines. Everything is checked, evaluated and controlled. This is done with great precision and at the highest possible speed. We’re talking about distances, so there may be some errors in the contact points, but this is a tried and true system. According to the more than a dozen referees the facility has come into contact with, largely due to the lack of precision of the tool provided by the CTA, referees have had to juggle to try to allow games with a possible advanced position on the record. time during games.

Although in 380 games last season there were errors in some games with possible offsides allowed by VAR, the CTA spoke at this meeting only about five mistakes made in the First Division that will affect the three relegated teams and Real Betis. But what kind of plays are these? Despite the establishment’s opacity, Relevo had access to all the details.

31st round. Real Sociedad 2 – Almeria 2

The line used to indicate offside using CTA in the VOR room is very thick. This has happened in several matches, and one of them was Real Sociedad – Almeria, in which the goal was conceded to Mikel Oyarzabal in the 58th minute, when he was in front of the ball at the moment of his partner’s pass. . AND

The VAR drew an offside line on the ball, but they should have drawn a second line on Mikel’s knee, the very front of the striker, which would have shown his position was incorrect.

32 round Girona 4 – Cadiz 1

Something similar happened in the meeting between Girona and Cadiz in Montilivi. Artem Dovbik scored a goal in the 71st minute, which was seen by VAR. When drawing lines, the player’s knee was taken to be the very front of the player when the shoulder was clearly in front.. The result was a goal that should have been disallowed, making the score 3–0 in a match which Michel’s side won 4–1.

Round 32. Athletic 1 – Granada 1

In the 24th minute of the match between Athletic and Granada, Gorka Guruzeta equalized the score on the scoreboard. He did so after a game in which VAR failed to draw an offside line early in the game, when Gorza Guruzeta himself leaned on his teammate Nico Williams and then removed his mark. He drew a line to the ball rather than to Nico Williams’ shoulder, which was the player’s most forward part. However, although it was an error admitted by the CTA itself, the goal was legal because, although the distance was centimeters, Williams’ shoulder was also not in front of the ball.

Round 35. Betis 3 – Almeria 2

Once again in a Betis match, this time on matchday 35 against Almeria at the Estadio Benito Villamarín, VAR drew the offside line incorrectly. He mixed up the hand of Luca Romero, who scored the goal in the 66th minute, with defender Miranda’s knee. When the image was enlarged, it became pixelated and confused the body parts of both players who were together.

The Almeria striker’s goal, which appeared on the scoreboard, had to be disallowed due to an incorrect position.

According to the referees contacted by Relevo: They face enormous challenges due to the technology used to accurately and reliably resolve offside plays such as those proposed.. Moreover, they feel exposed by the Technical Referee Committee itself, which publicly boasts about its system, because they know that, just like using a “sloppy” instrument, they have to draw boundaries and apply fairness on the playing fields.