For Iturralde, the 2-0 penalty should not have been awarded to Messi

Barcelona managed to go 0-2 on the scoreboard when Messi transformed in the 69th minute a penalty sanctioned on himself by Martínez Munuera two minutes before. In that action, Messi makes a wall and when he goes to receive in the area he collides with Jonathan Silva. The match referee sees the action and signals the penalty, however, the VAR reviews it. For Iturralde González, referee of the SER and AS, two mistakes are made. For him, there is no punishable action. “It is football, there is nothing, it is a very light penalty, for me there is no penalty,” says the former colleague.

Furthermore, Iturralde observes an error in the VAR protocol since the action was unnecessarily reviewed. “It is an action that the referee sees on the field, observes a contact, judges it and points it out, there is no other action to review, the VAR must not enter. There is a problem and it is that not all the referees are valid for the VAR, There should be a specific body to avoid these errors, “says Iturralde.