José Luis Mendilibar is still dissatisfied with the VAR video refereeing system that today, in his opinion, again harmed his team with very long periods of game interruption, something that favored Athletic when they were ahead on the scoreboard. “If you are winning, the breaks sleep the game, but if you need to win it is the opposite. If you spend three minutes reviewing a play, this clearly has nothing and they told us that the VAR was for clear plays ”, lamented the Eibar coach after the match.
Mendilibar considers that this system was not invented to “get so dizzy, the referees feel harmed”, while he said he did not understand “what the referee was looking for in the lack of Pape Diop, but it seems that we want to curl the curl ”.
The former Athletic club also spoke about the match and acknowledged that Athletic “has been more comfortable in the first half, in which we have not been successful and, when there was little left, in a counter, in a lost ball, the play was not aborted and the goal came before the break, ”the Biscayan coach summed up the first half.
The gunsmith coach saw the second half different “with a better rhythm” by Eibar but due to issues such as VAR “the tension was lost and immediately his second goal came.”
Today's match was not easy for a Barça coach who stated that Athletic “took the three points for certain actions”, and appreciated that when the Biscayan “suffered more is when we pressed more and played in the opposite field”,
“We have drawn and we thought we could win but we have to generate more dangerous plays. Then we fell apart and we did not continue with the same dynamic, so Athletic took the opportunity to make cons, their annulled goal made them grow and my squad went down because fear enters your body “, concluded Mendilibar.