They cross the line

Explanations in the loser’s mouth sound like an excuse, he used to say Lillo. And any hot cloth or tear after a 0-4, which is an overwhelming and humiliating result before 30,000 people who dreamed of another magical night, is even out of place. But what happened with the VAR and with a sibylline arbitration of Martinez Munuera blew up for the first time Imanol Sheriff, so it also explains a part of the bloody final marker. The plot of the clash is not understood without the disallowed goal Januzaj, which would have been 1-1, and that emotional orgasm of the entire stands interrupted by a raised flag. It is difficult to gauge whether it is offside or not Oyarzabal, the wizard, is a matter of millimeters. If instead of a ’47’, he wore a more normal ’43’, there would be no controversy: it would be enabled. But what has no justification is the circus they set up with the lines they drew to establish that the position was illegal. They crossed the line.

It is not serious that the decision is based on a line drawn on a player’s boot. The reference is the toe of the lace-up Oyarzabal, supposedly more advanced than the foot of Bartra. But when that blue line crosses the defender’s extremity as if he wanted to dissect it, it is when the assistant’s decision to raise the flag and the VAR, managed by Villanueva Churches, to validate it. A joke. The realization later perpetrated another line that did show that there was offside.

celebrated like crazy Januzaj -who also showed his discomfort later on social networks-, the respectable jumped, even the public address system had begun to turn the classic: ‘Golegilea, golegilea…”. Isaac, with intemperate boxes, made the Belgian see that there were reasons to end the party.

The helpers of Imanol, located in the press box, were twittering and went down to rest pissed off and with proof that there had been a mistake. It is seen that they transferred it to the Oriotarra and the players, who left the locker room angrily after the break, as if seeking revenge, wounded in their pride. Failure Isaac and then the assistant to establish an out of the game of the Swede that was not. On the next play, he scored Juanmi the 0-2 and Real was erased from the match.

The varapalo is from the period and the errors are thick. But from the VOR Room they helped push the Real into the abyss.