The referee should have canceled Villalibre's goal, according to Iturralde

The controversy has been very present in the duel between Eibar and Athletic Club de Bilbao in Ipurua. After a somewhat rigorous penalty transformed by Orellana, the visiting team again tied the contest with a goal from Villalibre. The Mendilibar footballers complained about a possible lack of Iñaki Williams before the striker's shot, but neither the referee Prieto Iglesias nor Álvarez Izquierdo from the VAR considered it.

In the 80th minute of the game, Williams looking for a deep pass in the race and collides with Dmitrovic. A few seconds later Dani García puts a great ball into the area for Villalibre to finish him off at the back of the net. The referee validated the goal, something that For Iturralde González, a referee for Carrusel Deportivo and AS, it was a wrong decision.

“It is very clear lack. The VAR has to enter. Dmitrovic could catch it, but the ball escapes him because Williams goes down, he needs it, he loses the ball and ends in a goal. It is the beginning of the play, so it is VAR action“Itu explains, to then give his vision of the performance of Prieto Iglesias:” With what they are playing he has called a penalty in which it was seen that he was not sure. The referee has been lost, he has not known how to manage everything that has happened in the game“

Iturralde considers that the referee has been “poorly helped since the VAR”. For him, previously there was a clearer penalty from Yuri for grabbing an Eibar player and it was not pointed out. In addition, he stressed on the antenna the excessive time (about four minutes) that Prieto Iglesias spent watching the play of Orellana's goal. “If it is a clear and manifest error, it does not take that long“, closes the collaborator of AS and Cadena SER.