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Frederico Varandas attacks VAR for forgiving “Wendell’s clear aggression towards the Pot”

Sporting has reasons to complain about João Pinheiro’s referees in the League Cup final. So says President Frederico Varandas, who attacked the referee’s criteria and showed hope for an end to the “conditionalities” that still exist in arbitration. “Fortunately, I am an optimist. I believe that this condition that the referees still have and will take some time to get out… I believe, I am an optimist, we are resistant, we are also young, that to everything will come to an end.” well,” said the leader of the green and whites to journalists in Estádio Municipal de Leiria, after the defeat in the final (2-0) against FC Porto.

Leonine’s leader used irony to criticize referee João Pinheiro’s criteria, who “managed to have the rigor to give Paulinho the second yellow card in that bid, but the VAR didn’t have the same rigor in forgiving a direct red card for a clear aggression. that the VAR cannot fail, from Wendell to the Pot”. And he expressed his surprise that Otávio ended the game without a single card: “It could be a surprise, but it’s not. Otávio has only one yellow card in 17 games in the league. This has been the criterion.”

“When we played 11v11 we were much better than our opponents. We showed that on the pitch, we were a great team. We were better when we were 11v11. Unfortunately this story has been repeated. I went to the last five games between Sporting and FC Porto. Sporting has six broadcasts against only one of the opponents,” recalled Varandas, who watched the final from the stands, almost next to Pinto da Costa.

Amorim: “The players didn’t want to receive the medals”

Rúben Amorim revealed that he had to convince the players to return to the field to collect the defeated finalist’s medals. the winner, FC Porto. “We don’t have to stay. We have to go there and collect the medals, it was hard because they didn’t want to go, but it was important that they didn’t talk about it all week, but about what happened in the game. After receiving the medals, and to avoid further confusion, the players were told to leave and that’s what they did,” said Amorim, after losing for the first time in the League Cup after 34 games.

The Sporting coach tried to control himself and not talk about the referees in the derby flash interview from SIC: “I will not comment. My players are mad at me, I know that, but I won’t change my attitude. I’m staying here on the wall because I should be defending my players, but I’m not commenting on the referees because we lost. If I did, they’d talk about it all week, but talk before the bids. Got the pictures, with slow motion, speaking of offers. We were the best team to play football, but it happened.”

About the game itself, he regretted the goal conceded in the ninth minute and Adán’s mistake in the move. “We conceded an unlucky goal, but we dominated the first half, created several chances and it was unfair for us to lose until the break. In the second half, after the broadcast, the game ended, our players lost their heads and we conceded the second goal when we tried everything but it was already very difficult to put pressure with one less I have nothing to point out to the players We played against a great team, we kept our cool, we tried everything, it second goal killed everything”, defended the Sporting coach.

In the press room, he asked Sporting fans not to exhaust themselves with internal wars. “There are more complicated times. The main thing is to be united and not be distracted by wars between us,” he said, without explaining the reason for the message and not declaring the season lost: “Football ends not in a game.”

For Amorim, Sporting played “well, against a great team, who are national champions” and tried to “keep the peace” in the second half, but the draw became a “tough task with ten players” and then “the 2-0 It was a hard blow.”

Author: Isaura Almeida

Source: DN

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