Mendilibar the shot with the VAR

The coach of S.D. Eibar ,, José Luis Mendilibar, remains dissatisfied with the VAR video arbitration system that today, in his opinion, he again hurt his team with very long periods of interruption of the game, something that favored Athletic when they were ahead on the scoreboard. “If you are winning the breaks, the game sleeps, but if you need to win it is the opposite. If you are three minutes reviewing a play, it clearly has nothing and they told us that the VAR was for the clear plays, “lamented the Biscayan coach after the match.

Mendilibar considers that this system was not invented to “make the partridge 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 loop.”

He also spoke specifically about the match, acknowledging that his rival, Athletic, “He was more comfortable in the first half, in which we were not right and, when there was little left, in a counter, in a lost ball, the play was not aborted and the goal arrived before the break, “the Biscayan coach summed up the first half.

The gunsmith coach saw the second different “with a better rhythm” on the part of Eibar but because of issues like 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 “They suffered the most when we pushed harder and played in the opposite field.”

“We have drawn and we believed 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.