This Monday, FC Porto dismissed responsibility for the failure of the video refereeing system used at the Estádio do Dragão in the match against Arouca and denies that the electrical outlet to which the team was connected had no current, as stated this morning by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), attributing the blame for the electrical failure of the system to the Altice technicians who made the connection between the electrical panel and the VAR booth.
“It does not correspond to the truth that the outlet available in the inspection area of the stadium did not have backup power,” the dragons guarantee in a statement, who point out that the outlet in question “has UPS power (Uninterruptible Power Supply) ) “, a device that stores energy and guarantees backup power in the event of a power failure.
In addition to this technical specificity, the dragons add that the shot in question “has a specific key that guarantees that it will only be used for the VAR system.”
This morning, the Arbitration Council (CA) of the Portuguese Football Federation revealed that, after an analysis, the technicians “concluded that the only electrical outlet available in the inspection area of the stadium did not have electricity and that during the entire match the backup power – also known as the UPS – has run out.”
The AC pointed out that this same socket “does not have rescued or assisted energy” and, therefore, it was necessary to change the VAR equipment “to the second power reserve system (UPS), fully restoring the service in minute 101″. ” .
FC Porto not only refutes this argument, but adds that, next to the socket in question, there is “another electrical panel with another socket available for use” and publishes an image of the place. “Furthermore, no power outages were detected during the match (before, during or after the match),” he reads.
Regarding responsibilities, the dragons point out that theirs “is exhausted in providing a power source so that the Altice technicians, hired by the FPF, can connect there the power cable destined for the VAR equipment, which happened, and All the responsibility of assembling the system and connecting cables is for those professionals”.
For the dragons, although the cable in question was connected to the stadium’s power supply, “it was not connected to the VAR team, so the system works with batteries from the start of the match”, something that it will have, according to FC Porto , has been “recognized by the Altice technicians when they changed the equipment, having come to be sustained by the energy of the stadium.”
The dragons then conclude that, as “there was no electrical failure” -and because this “does not disappear from one moment to the next”-, the VAR first team cable, although connected to the stadium’s power, “was never connected” . assigned to the VAR team due to a technical error”.
Thus, according to Porto’s argument, the team was running on the power supplied by the UPS throughout the match and, when it ran out, it turned off.
Due to this failure in the equipment, the referee Miguel Nogueira had to use a mobile phone to assess a possible penalty shot at Mehdi Taremi, who signaled, having revoked the decision without reviewing the images of the shot that occurred at minute 90+6.
The communication and video failure in the referee review area began at minute 87 and lasted 14 minutes, resuming at minute 101 of the match against Arouca.
Source: TSF
