Racing - Flamengo: a night of pure controversy with errors, successes and omissions by the referee and the VAR

11/24/2020 11:53 PM

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Updated 11/24/2020 23:53

The second half of the duel between Racing and Flamengo in Avellaneda was full of controversial situations, with the Venezuelan referee Alexis Herrera and the VAR as protagonists due to successes, errors and omissions.

Everything happened on the rainy night in Avellaneda, which had already had a point of tension when the referee, who never finished showing security, decided to show Fabricio Domínguez a pious yellow card after a harsh infraction against the indecipherable Bruno Henrique, author of the assist to Gabriel Barbosa in the only goal of the visit.

The most controversial, however, occurred at the start of the second half, with the match tied 1-1.

They ran five minutes from the complement when Eugenio Mena won the position to Everton Ribeiro and sent a precise cross from the left end that was connected with a head by Lisandro López.

It was a goal and an advantage

for Sebastián Beccacece's team, which at that point deserved a little more than equality.

However, Herrera, at the behest of the VAR, decided that the Chilean side marker had pushed the Brazilian midfielder.

The Venezuelan believed him at the glance of the VAR judge and did not go to review the play to the monitor that is on the playing field.

If he had gone, he could have observed that there was no infraction of the Chilean side marker, but that Ribeiro was the one who caused the contact and dropped.

Licha López cannot believe that they annulled her goal.

Photo: Reuters.

The play was much protested by the people of Racing, who immediately benefited from a success of the VAR.

It is that René defined and put the 2-1 that would have put the series very uphill, but technology detected that Vitinho was ahead at the beginning of the play.

There were two other controversies, but they were well resolved by Herrera.

The first was a goal by Reniero annulled to Racing.

Nothing illicit had been observed in the first shot of sight, but later, in a repetition, it could be seen that at the origin of the play there was offside.

A plenary session of the VAR.

Reniero scores the goal, but before there was an offside that VAR detected.

Photo: AFP

The same thing happened 10 minutes from the end when Herrera ended up expelling the central marker of Flamengo Matheus Thuler for a hard infraction against Licha López.

The referee had only admonished the Brazilian, but the VAR assistant warned him that the entry was for a red card.

And there was no doubt: the Venezuelan saw the iron on the monitor, he took the yellow from Thuler and sent him non-stop to the showers. 

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