“It seems to me to be Nacho’s hand in the area, but the VAR cannot enter”

The Athletic players claimed in the 50th minute a penalty for Nacho’s hand in the area, after a shot by Raúl García in a corner kick in the Cup qualifying match that pits the red-and-white team against Real Madrid. The VAR, where González González was, stopped to check the images, but did not see anything punishable to urge Gil Manzano to go to the monitor to review the play.

“It’s a play where you can’t see clearly if it’s Nacho’s hand. It seems to me that it can hit the hand, but the VAR cannot enter since there is no image where you have 100% security. What is clear is that corner can never be. Very gray play where the images do not clarify the doubt 100%, so what the referee does is well done”, he explains in Sports Carousel Iturralde González, referee for AS and Cadena SER.

Minutes later, at 59′, the magnifying glass was placed on the other area, for a possible hand of Iñaki Williams in a center of Modric. “Nothing at all, it hits him on the hip and his hand is clearly attached to his body,” Iturralde argues.