“We know that there are some audios from the lineman to the referee; we are going to defend our rights”

Barcelona has shown through an official statement its most “” absolute disagreement “with the way VAR is being applied since this start of the season. In fact, the Blaugrana club stresses feeling “seriously harmed”, since it considers that it has not been used under the same criteria in very similar situations. So much so that he points out that in the last games, the VAR “has not been applied under the essential criteria of ethics and equality”, coming to directly favor “our most direct rivals”.

In the official statement, the club urges the RFEF to initiate “an immediate reflection” in order to unify the interpretation and application criteria, since it considers that the image of LaLiga may be affected “in its credibility”.

Bartomeu himself explained that “I have had knowledge of some conversations with the lineman that are recorded and we are going to study it because we are going to defend our rights “. The leader refers to some audios recorded during the game against Real Madrid, which the SER had access to, where the lineman informed the referee of a previous foul by Ramos to Lenglet, but that the referee ignored, finally calling maximum penalty against Barcelona .

“We call on the VAR for a joint reflection. It cannot be that a match is one way and another is another. Our coach rightly complained about that”, denounced the maximum leader blaugrana.

The club ends its statement with the confidence that “other LaLiga clubs” will join the initiative of Barcelona to improve the VAR.