Velasco Carballo, president of the Technical Committee of Referees, appeared together with Clos Gómez, director of the VAR, to take stock of the refereeing season. It was the latter who reviewed the VAR figures this season.
Of the 380 games that have been played in LaLiga, the VAR intervened in 156 performancess, of which in 9 the referee maintained his decision (6 for penalties and 3 for offside interference or previous foul) and 5 decisions were improved decisions. This leaves an average intervention for every 2.44 games.
All irruptions of the VAR, 63 were in factual actions and in 93 subjective, that is, they had to go to the monitor. The referee follows the VAR's recommendation in 94.2% of decisions. “In many countries this figure is 80%. When the VAR referee calls in Spain, it is because it is a clear and manifest error, ”said Clos.
During the season, the referees had 825 incidents within the area of which 123 were reported and 702 were not. That means that the success was 91.27% correct (753), while they made the wrong decision on 72 occasions. The VAR's action led to that success being 97.45% when solving 51 actions, since I consider that these were decisions in which there was a clear, obvious and manifest error.
The success of the linemen During the season he was at 95.30%, having an error of 4.70%. With the intervention of the VAR (in offside plays it does not always intervene, only when there are goals or penalties) the success rose to 96.13%.
Regarding yellows, 1,858 were shown, with 251 errors. The success was 97.36%. 43 direct reds were shown: 26 by the referee and 17 assisted by the VAR. Six more should have been shown.“The only way to achieve unification of criteria is to watch videos and analyze them together. We have seen 946 video clips with our referees during the season, the previous one was 650 ”, he said
Velasco Carballo.
As for the number of goals, Of the 942 that were scored, the VAR participated directly in 65. With the VAR 46 goals have been canceled and 19 conceded. As for penalties, with the VAR on 43 occasions he intervened to grant it, on 15 to cancel it and on 5 to have it repeated.