Global Courant 2023-05-15 05:22:41
The local was validated a goal that had to be annulled. Advíncula touched the bottom, Payero (advanced) tried to divert (confusing the goalkeeper) and Pipa pushed the ball into the net. Look at the video.
Argentine football in times of VAR is like this: what it does not give you on one date, it can offer you on the next. And that feeling may be going through Boca players, coaching staff, leaders and fans at the moment. Because on the night of the Bombonera the local was validated a goal that should have been annulled with the work of technology. Or at least that’s what it seemed…
The play was a lethal counter attack by Boca that culminated in a strong definition by Darío Benedetto entering the far post and connecting a good cross from Luis Advíncula. It happened that in the way of the Peruvian ball for Pipa, Martín Payero tried to touch it and failed to deflect it. The former Banfield was in a clearly advanced position, if you pay attention to the grass cuts. It took a few seconds for assistant Ezequiel Brailovsky to raise the flag. There was confusion because it was not understood whether the offside was claimed or not. Fernando Espinoza put his hand to his right ear and in less than a minute Lucas Novelli, the person in charge of VAR, conceded the goal.
Two repeats were shown on television. In the first, the cut was made when the ball was on the grass cutting line and when it was coming out of Advíncula’s loot. There was a very clear offside. In the second sequence, the cut of Advíncula’s impact was stretched a little more and there the action is finer, although Payero continues to seem advanced.
Guillermo Farré complained about the action, but not very strongly. We will now have to wait for the drawing of the lines. And continue arguing, because the VAR did not arrive to end the discussions.
“The penalty play is very doubtful. I asked the referee and he told me that it is a clear penalty. At no time did he consult the VAR from what I understand. Seeing the play, it is not a collectible penalty, it is a minimal touch and it should not have never be charged. It’s not a kick that blew his leg off. I asked the River player and he told me ‘it’s my turn’ and he got his shin guard”, were the words of Sergio Romero after the defeat at the Monumental due to the sanctioned penalty by Darío Herrera in the final minute of the duel. And he added: “It is very difficult to define Herrera’s arbitration. He told me to my face that from the VAR they told him that it was a penalty and it was not like that. In the first half he had done a good job, but in the second he missed the party out of hand”.
Once again a controversial action with the participation -or not- of the VAR. It will always be so. That’s why sometimes it gives you, sometimes it takes away…
