The delicate referee topic has again received new food in Spain. This time the focus is on a mysterious Var saying.
The referee also played a major role in the youngest Clásico in Laliga. The day after the spectacular 4: 3 success of FC Barcelona against Real Madrid, the performance of Referee Alejandro Hernández Hernández was not the focus of the Spanish press.
Rather, practically all major media reported on a mysterious voice in the Var area.
Fermín Lopez was already cheering – but the goal was withdrawn
As usual, Laliga published the recordings after the game. This shows that a person in the control center of the impartial with the words “be thanks” reacted to the discovery of a handball in the supposed Barca goal to 5: 3 (90.+6).
Referee delighted with handball?
Fermín Lopez had met for Barca, but a handball was recognized in the run -up to the goal. The hit didn’t count – to the delight of a referee on the screen?
One of the VAR members, Martínez Munuera, said to Hernández Hernández: “Place on Alex, we discovered a handball, okay? Please look at it.”
Then the ominous voice mentioned, which could not be assigned: “With the height, thank God. Yes, yes, exactly.” Hernández Hernández replied in the stadium: “Okay, perfect, the hand is clearly up. I will cancel the gate.”
Explanation for VAR-Verbel?
Iturralde González, a Spanish referee expert, provided an explanatory approach at Carrusel Deportivo .
“There are three people at the var. It may be that the first person who should have seen the handball did not see it – and the second person saw it,” said González.
And further: “Since everyone is responsible for a camera, the first one who had to check it does not see the hand and the second sees it and it comes from his soul: ‘Thank God we saw the hand’.”
Referee decisions are currently a particularly sensitive topic in Spain. Since Real Madrid sees itself disadvantaged, the club repeatedly puts pressure on the impartial with the club’s own media.
The VAR had to intervene several times at the Clásico. Hernández Hernández refused Barca a possible handicraft after intervention.