On Sunday, Barcelona lost at Real Sociedad 1-0 with an assist from the Croatian national team player Luke Sučića but the question is how the game would have ended if technology had been a little more merciful (or maybe just more so) in the case of a disallowed goal. Robert Lewandowskog in the 13th minute.
The graphics showed in the television broadcast that the tip of the boot of Barcelona’s attack was in the rear, but a closer look at the frozen frame shows that the boot is not his at all, but the opponent’s defender. a Nayefa Aguerda.
– What can I do? If VAR tells us it’s back, why should we make it up? Listen to me, why should we invent excuses – said referee Cuadra Fernández to angry Barcelona coach Hansi Flick, and he did not agree with that decision, the camera caught the referee laughing at his protests.
– I told him that it was a bad decision to show Lewandowski’s weaknesses. That’s all I can say, wrong decision. It’s not his fault and I know it. That’s all there is to it, nothing more – said Flick.
It is a semi-automatic defender system that determines the players’ positions by itself, maps them in three dimensions and draws a line to determine whether it is a defender or not. Judges have no influence on those decisions.
– It is possible that they made a mistake marking Robert’s foot. We hope that La Liga will react if such a serious mistake has been made. If it was, let it be proven, let it be investigated and let it react – said “Blaugrana” goalkeeper Iñaki Peña.