Sporting complained on Monday about an irregularity in Benfica’s equalizer in the derby that took place on Sunday at Estádio José Alvalade (2-2).
Involves “blocking a red player [Florentino Luís] offside against captain leonino [Coates]”There is clearly a technical error by the VAR not applying the rules of the game, which prevented our team from taking the three points,” emphasize the lions, who emphasize that there was “unanimity” on the part of the critics when the bid considered “irregular”.
Reinforcing “the need for the audios between the VAR and the refereeing teams to be known,” the Greens and Whites point out that in England, the head of arbitration, former referee Howard Webb, showed bids from the previous round and the respective audios on television,” explain the decisions of the VAR and bet on more transparency of the whole process”, despite the fact that FIFA banned the broadcast of live audio.
“The only way we can have a more qualified and professional arbitration in Portugal is to follow a path of transparency, where the rationale for decisions affecting the clubs and the final standings is known. Knowing the VAR audio is certainly the right step and extremely important in that sense,” Sporting said in a statement on the club’s official website.
The Alvalade decal assumes “this was a season below expectations” and doesn’t want to excuse the fact that it hasn’t been able to achieve the goals it set itself. “However, there are wrong decisions without rational explanation that are detrimental to our football and in this particular case distort the sporting truth of the game,” the note emphasizes.
Source: DN
