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De Ligt and Lewandowski on the ground

THE REFEREE OVERRIDED THE DECISION

The VAR scandals continue! This was the penalty that was 'swiped' from Lewandowski

Published:26/10/2022 - 22:06h

Updated:27/10/2022 - 00:43h

The controversy made an appearance at the Spotify Camp Nou during the duel between Bayern and Barça. The referee signaled a penalty in favor of the Catalans for an alleged Lewandowski, but annulled the decision after reviewing the VAR

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The FC Barcelona has gone back to be leading of a new controversy in the UEFA Champions League and already begins to be habit. The square directed by Xavi Hernández received to the Bayern of Munich in the Spotify Camp Nou in the corresponding party to the fifth day of the phase of groups of the European competition. With the 'descent' to the Europe League already confirmed after the victory of the Inter in front of Viktoria Plzen, the culés went out to the field in research of a triumph that helped to the morals of the team.

However, the Bavarians did not save at all in spite of being classified and attained to advance in the marker with forcefulness, adding a 0-2 to the half hour of the meeting. Nevertheless, the Catalan group could have gone to the rest with a goal in the marker. To the minute 44, Robert Lewandowski confined to the area muniquense and was demolished by Matthijs of Ligt, in an action that was declared like infringement by part of the referee of the duel, Anthony Taylor.

In spite of this, the main referee was called from the room VOR to observe again the played and take a definite decision. When approaching to the monitor and see the action, Taylor determined that the central Dutch did not commit fault on the goleador Polish, by what cancelled the penalti. Although it is true that the footballer of the Bayern touches the balloon with his right leg, with the left carried by in front to the attacker, by what the controversy does present again against of the blaugranas.

And it is that the culés saw prejudiced by the arbitration in diverse opportunities in the present edition of the Champions. In Milan lived with greater notoriety, when the main referee, Pol go Boekel, cancelled the goal of the tie and did the sight 'fat' to a clear penalti in favour in the last minute by hand of Dumfries, in a defeat that went the principle of the end of the Barça in Europe.

Alemany Spoke in this regard

In this sense, Mateu Alemany showed his dissatisfaction with the arbitration after the victory of the Bayern in the feudo Catalan. "I do not think that have time but, to concretise, in Munich did not deserve to lose. And in Milan there is an incomprehensible referee's circumstance. We are in favour of the estamento referee's but is very difficult to understand that a referee in front of the screen do not understand the played like penalti. And this determined the group", declared, leaving clear that in the club consider that the referees have his quota of fault in the elimination blaugrana.