The VAR rectified a penalti signalled against of the FC Barcelona by a presumptive hand inside the area of Joao Cancel. The Portuguese defender, to regulate party in defensive phase, touched accidentally the balloon with his right forearm in the middle of a control of one of the mediocampistas of the Portuguese team, but the review of the English referee Anthony Taylor finished revirtiendo the decision.
And it is that Stephen Eustáquio, protagonist of the attack of the Port wine, had controlled previously helping of his left arm and this situation did that it banished any possibility of penalti against of the ones of Xavi Hernández. The British referee had not doubted in signalling the infringement in the minute 78, with the 0-1 in the marker, but the VAR act so that finally it arrived the correct decision.
The Barça saw backed by the images of the VAR
From the Room VAR, Stuart Attwell urged to his compatriot to review the action in the monitor, a repetition that besides showed that possibly the hand of Cancel had been out of the area and could have changed also by a free shot. In spite of demorarse near of 3 minutes, the evidence of the images was total, by what Taylor threw backwards in his decision, a distinct stage to the following time that the VAR had to act.
Already much more near of the minute 90 would arrive a so much of Taremi, the '9' of the Port wine, with a spectacular Chilean, but was advanced. The joy of the venues in this case lasted very shortly after that one of the assistants of Taylor signalled almost immediately the position antirreglamentaria of the Iranian forward -confirmed by the VAR-, the one who in 2021 had marked in a played very similar in front of Chelsea.
The ones of Xavi begin to see his way to eighth
With the result, the Barça achieved his second victory in what it goes of the Champions, assuming the leadership of the Group H with 6 units. By his part, the ones of the Portuguese Sérgio Conceiçãor, remained with 3 points in the second place, equalised now with the Shakhtar Donetsk, the next rival of the culés, after tracing back in Belgium in front of the Amberes.