The derby last Saturday in the Santiago Bernabeu has left more controversy than expected, as the athletic continue to claim a penalty of Casemiro to Morata However, certain rules of the VAR They say that the members of the meeting acted correctly in their decision not to take the penalty that certainly never existed.
That it is accepted by the Culés newspapers, that is to say, and that is that even the same Sport has confirmed that Estrada Fernández Y the collegiate of VAR, Sánchez Martínez, they were right in the decision taken by not whistling the imaginary penalty of Casemiro to Morata in the 30th minute of the match. (Total censorship: the penalty against Benzema that was not hit in the derby)
As much as he VAR serve to improve the game, at the moment the ones in charge of arbitrating the matches are the referees themselves and not the technology, so as specialists have well commented, the parties continue to be fully interpreted by those in charge of the match, so while One play can be a penalty, for others it is not.
Therefore the protocol of the International Board and FIFA about him VAR ensures that the collegiate of the room VOR You can only intervene and check a play if you understand that there is a “clear and manifest” error in the decision of the field referee, in this case, of Estrada Fernández, situation that they did not understand from the VOR room, because it had been an assessment of Estrada and not an obvious error in their decision.