The Cádiz-Real Madrid controversy: a VAR penalty, another possible …

Almost six months and 25 league games later, Real Madrid were once again called a penalty in favor in the championship. The whites had not been whistled one since the Clásico in the first round against Barcelona, ​​on matchday 8, on October 24.

Penalty for stomping from Iza to Vinicius (28 ')

The action that cut the streak happened in the 28th minute of the match against Cádiz at Carranza. Iza knocks Vinicius down in the area with a stomp. Mateu Lahoz did not appreciate the play, but from the VAR De Burgos Bengoetxea he immediately urged him to go to the monitor to see the play. The Valencian referee signaled a penalty and admonished the cadista player. “Without seeing the repetition I think it is a penalty. It is very clear and yellow due to the stomp,” commented Iturralde González, AS referee, in the broadcast of the Sports Carousel of Cadena SER.

Possible penalty for Jairo grabbing Rodrygo (25 ')

The ball could have gone to eleven meters three minutes earlier. It was a grab from Jairo to Rodrygo in the 25th minute that Mateu Lahoz did not consider punishable, but “if he whistles the penalty he cannot say anything”, Iturralde explains in Carrusel.