The controversial decisions of the VAR have 'stolen' the leadership of LaLiga from Barça

The FC Barcelona is having a good exert in LaLiga EA Sports this season. In spite of the recent defeat by 1-2 against the Real Madrid, the cast of Xavi Hernández finds in a high position in the table of classification, occupying the fourth place with 24 points, to alone four of the leadership. However, this situation could have been blurred by the decisions of the VAR.

According to the metric of the portal web 'Archive VAR', based in a study that took into account factors like goals cancelled and validated wrongly, as well as penaltis distinguished and no signalled of erroneous way, the Barça would lead LaLiga with 27 units, gone on down the Girona with 26, the Athletic of Madrid with 25 and the Real Madrid with 24.

The controversies in which the VAR has prejudiced to the Barça

A clear example of this was the recent penalti no pitado to Ronald Araújo by part of Aurélien Tchouaméni, in which the referee Jesús Gil Manzano and the assistant of VAR did not bother in reviewing a questionable action. This decision could have changed the result of the duel, since it could have been a hypothetical tie 2-2, in which both squares could have added a point, in place of a victory for the combined merengue.

Another situation in which the Barcelona square saw prejudiced by an erroneous intervention of the VAR was in the party against the Granada. With the marker empatado 2-2, Joao Félix converted an entirely valid target, but was cancelled after a review with the videoarbitraje. The judge César Soto Degree considered that Ferran Torres, the one who tried to finish of head the previous balloon to the annotation of the Portuguese, interfered in the played, which was not the case. This decision deprived to the

In addition to these decisions, there were other questionable actions that, although they did not influence directly in the result of the party, like the goal conceded wrongly to Alexander Sørloth in the crossing against the Villarreal CF by the collegiate Alejandro Hernández Hernández, in which it validated an offside annotation in the victory of the FC Barcelona by 3-4. Also there were other actions that could be debatibles if they analyse thoroughly.

The VAR and his 'helps' to the Real Madrid

On the other hand, in the case of the Real Madrid, the VAR has added points in questionable situations, like a target cancelled to the Celtic by a supposed fault of Larsen on Kepa by the referee Isidro Díaz of Mere, which gave him three points to the Real Madrid in a party that finished 1-0. Also it validated by part of the silbante, Mario Melero López, a so much of Joselu against the Getafe that initiated the traced back of the whites (2-1), in spite of being offside. These decisions also have benefited to the cast merengue.

Other less influential actions, but in which also it saw benefited the picture of Chamartín, are, for example, the goal of Jude Bellingham, where the VAR did not cancel a goal of the English in which, in addition to the offside, there was a clear hand that could have been sanctioned. Aunado To this, there has been a series of questionable actions that, of some form or another, have repercutido clearly in the leadership of LaLiga.