This Tuesday, Sporting was disappointed because the Arbitration Council (CA) of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) did not accept errors in the match between Rio Ave and FC Porto, for the third day of the I Liga.
“Sporting Clube de Portugal notes with disappointment the lack of communication from the CA about the serious errors of the refereeing team that directed the match between Rio Ave and FC Porto,” read a statement from the lions.
In the note, Sporting, without listing the errors, considers that “both refereeing teams made glaring mistakes, on and off the field, clearly harming Rio Ave and favoring FC Porto.”
Sporting recalls the assumption of a mistake made by the CA of the FPF during Sporting’s victory over Casa Pia, in which the video arbitration (VAR) misplaced the offside lines, wrongly validating the first goal of the lions.
For the Lisbon club “it would be expected that […] “The Board came to recognize the errors, regret what happened and take action,” “but simply, in this case, it chose to do nothing.”
“The line of magnitude of the error is measured by the evidence of the same and the impact they have. The consequence of a technical error or a serious error of bad judgment is the same for the sporting truth,” says the club.
The lions also consider that “errors of omission, especially from VAR, are as serious or more serious than errors of action”, “as well as those of AC, which did not know how to intervene quickly, deciding to whistle to the side”.
Source: TSF
