In Barcelona they are nails as a result of the penalty that Cordero Vega whistled in favor of Huesca, in the meeting this Monday that closed the 27th day, after the referee of the Cantabrian Committee understood that the hand of Ter Stegen made it difficult for Rafa Mir to finish off.
At that time, the result was 2-0 in favor of the Barça team and that penalty, almost on the verge of half-time, put emotion into the game. An action in which the ball was no longer being disputed and which became the center of all the controversy, with angry protests at Barça.
Koeman, at the end of the game, did not miss the opportunity to criticize the referee's decision on the action: “If the VAR enters, it is not a penalty. I don't understand how you can whistle a penalty and complicate it. Once again, I don't understand the VAR. The penalty is crazy. I don't know how it could have been whistled. The VAR has seen it, but it is clear that Ter Stegen does not touch the forward “.
But it is that ‘Deportes Cuatro’ has issued images of the reaction on the pitch from both Koeman and some Barça players, Jordi Alba being the most vehement. The Dutch coach reproaches the referee for the action saying “there is nothing”, but the international side did not mince words: “The VAR is a fucking shit.”
The opinion of Iturralde González
Iturralde González, referee for AS and Carrusel Deportivo, analyzed the action live: “Nothing. It is not a penalty ever. It does not imply a card. It is a touch, not to shoot it. The VAR does not have to look for an image to support an arbitration decision. Football is contact. At no time is it to whistle a penalty. If you go running like Rafa Mir and they hit you with their hand on the leg they hit you a terrible blow. The VAR did not come to help the referee but to help football. The VAR is used to support erroneous arbitration decisions. And I think that's the mistake. The VAR came to remove gross errors in football and not to search for an image where you can support a referee error “.