{"id":522675,"date":"2026-04-10T03:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:56:16","slug":"barcelona-complain-to-uefa-about-grave-lack-of-var-intervention-in-atletico-madrid-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522675\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona complain to Uefa about ‘grave lack of VAR intervention’ in Atletico Madrid loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona have submitted a complaint to Uefa over a “grave lack of VAR intervention” during their 2-0 Champions League defeat<\/a> by Atletico Madrid on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Hansi Flick’s side were denied a penalty in the 54th minute of the quarter-final first leg when Atletico defender Marc Pubill handled the ball in the visitors’ box.<\/p>\n

Pubill, who had received a yellow card earlier in the game, stopped the ball with his hand after goalkeeper Juan Musso had appeared to restart play with a goal kick.<\/p>\n

Barcelona players appealed for a penalty but referee Istvan Kovacs allowed play to continue and Video Assistant Referee Christian Dingert did not intervene.<\/p>\n

“The club considers that the refereeing did not adhere to the current law, directly influencing how the game progressed and the result,” Barcelona said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“FC Barcelona understands that this decision, along with a grave lack of intervention by VAR, represents a major error. <\/p>\n

“Accordingly, the club has requested an investigation be opened, access to refereeing communications, and where applicable, official acknowledgment of the errors and the adoption of the relevant measures.”<\/p>\n

Atletico were leading 1-0 at the time thanks to a sublime free-kick goal by Julian Alvaraz after Pau Cubarsi had been sent off for the home side.<\/p>\n

Cubarsi was initially shown a yellow card after fouling Giuliano Simeone as he broke through one-on-one, but that was changed to a red card when Kovacs was asked by the VAR to review the incident on the pitchside monitor.<\/p>\n

“The VAR was very focused today for Atletico,” Barca boss Flick said after the game.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what happens in the situation where the goalkeeper starts the game and the defender stops it with the hand and then plays again. For me it is a clear red card – well a double yellow – and then a red card and penalty.”<\/p>\n

Alexander Sorloth added a second in the 70th minute to give Atletico their first win at the Nou Camp since 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona have submitted a complaint to Uefa over a “grave lack of VAR intervention” during their 2-0 Champions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-522675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}