Audio recordings from the VAR room have revealed the behind-the-scenes story of the decision to overturn the sending-off of Barcelona player Gerard Mart\u00edn during the match against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, which ended in a 2-1 victory for the Blaugrana.\n<\/p>\n
The Spanish newspaper \u2018AS\u2019 confirmed that the match saw two controversial incidents in which VAR intervened. The first concerned the overturning of Gerard Martin\u2019s immediate sending-off following his challenge on Almada in the 48th minute, where the VAR room summoned referee Busquets Ferrer to review the incident on screen, ultimately leading him to reverse his decision and settle for a yellow card for the young player.\n<\/p>\n
Footage released by the Spanish Football Federation showed the VAR room alerting referee Ferrer to assess a \u201cpossible withdrawal of the red card\u201d for Mart\u00edn\u2019s challenge.\n<\/p>\n
In its analysis of the play, the video room stated: \u201cIn my opinion, this is a play in which the Barcelona player plays the ball naturally; it is a normal dynamic of play, where he played the ball and then made contact with the Atl\u00e9tico player naturally.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
After reviewing the footage, referee Busquets Ferrer agreed with the assessment, saying: \u201cWell, the Barcelona player has control of the ball, plays it and then steps on the opponent; it is a natural dynamic,\u201d before confirming the cancellation of the red card and showing Martin a yellow card.\n<\/p>\n
The second incident saw the sending-off of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid\u2019s Nico Gonz\u00e1lez, who had initially received a second yellow card for a challenge on Lamine Yamal in first-half stoppage time, but the VAR called the referee over again, and the latter decided to rescind the second yellow card and show a straight red in its place.\n<\/p>\n
The VAR official told Ferrer: \u201cI recommend a potential red card for denying a clear goal-scoring opportunity,\u201d which the referee endorsed after reviewing the footage, saying: \u201cThe point of contact was clearly outside the penalty area, and the foul is clear; yes, he was preparing to shoot towards goal.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The VAR room continued its analysis of the incident, explaining: \u201cIn my opinion, the attacker has control of the ball at all times and is heading towards the goal; the foul prevented a clear goal-scoring opportunity as no defender was closing in,\u201d to which Ferrer replied: \u201cI completely agree; there are no defenders around him and the next move was to shoot. I will cancel the second yellow<\/p>\n
and show a straight red.\u201d Read also: Tension behind the scenes\u2026 Leaks reveal division in the Barcelona dressing room<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audio recordings from the VAR room have revealed the behind-the-scenes story of the decision to overturn the sending-off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111144,1998,180440,85,46,180441,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-376046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-g-martin","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-n-gonzalez","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}