Lower VAR, clear hands and more effective game time

This Monday he appeared Luis Medina Cantalejopresident of the CTAbefore the media, where he has insisted on the key lines for this season and that we have already discussed in MD. Starting with a greater role for the field referee: “I don’t know if the verb is to recover the preponderance of the field referee, what is certain is that the decision-making capacity of a referee on the field must be paramount”

As a consequence of them the WAS it will be a safety net “that assures you that if you have a clear and manifest error. And on that I am insisting, the serious and manifest is for everyone. Not that from the VAR we see that he hit him in the phalanx of the second finger of the right hand. And that’s not clear.”

Another subject is offsides. Here he has insisted that it is necessary to clarify those “where it is the defender who hits the ball and it reaches a forward. And it is wanted to be “more football and less rules of the game. It comes in line with our famous move we had with Mbappe and in which I was clear. It wasn’t offside for me.”

On the subject of hands They are going to try “by all means to be clear hands and there are no doubts. Also that there be no doubts about which are not hands and then which are those hands that disturb us, that make us uncomfortable. Everyone, including us. We are going to try to reduce the number of sanctions, so that those that are sanctioned do not make so much noise”.

louis medina has insisted that “What we try is that the criterion is that when it is something clear. A hand that is where he shouldn’t and the ball hits him, and the referee is covered and doesn’t see it. That’s what VAR is for.”

You have to run away from hands that are not: “But a player who comes running and grazes him on the elbow. What if he has given him! But we all understand that football is something else.” But when “there is no doubt that the important thing is the penalty because an error in interpretation in a maximum penalty decides an outcome”.

about wasting time Luis Medina acknowledges that there was a moment last season “we put our batteries into everything we can do. And it is that a referee cannot be explaining each decision or each fault that he points out. You have to have speed in putting into play. Because if you take an average of 35 seconds to put into play. After that time, how do you recover? We are telling the referees not to talk so much after a penalty. There we gain time”.

Then it will be necessary to discount what is necessary: ​​“Then we all know that in the 89th minute they appear injured… well, extend the discount time. And then we know that before 3 or 4 and now it has moved to five or six. But if in those five or six we see that they continue to lose time, if it goes to eleven then it goes to eleven”.

And they will avoid those they fake injuries to waste time: “If a player is injured and leaves the field and as soon as he leaves he asks to come on, let him recover a little. We are going to try to increase the effective playing time. This year we have increased it by 32% from November to the end of the season”.

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