'Robbery' from Barça? The controversial penalty that the VAR took away from the Barça team

Published:27/01/2024 - 22:08h

Updated:27/01/2024 - 22:35h

FC Barcelona did not lose their match against Villarreal CF due to refereeing errors, but rather on their own merits. However, this does not mean that there has not been more than one play in the match that deserves exhaustive analysis due to the decisions made by José Luis Munuera Montero

The FC Barcelona has gone back to fall in LaLiga. In this occasion, the ones of Xavi Hernández, in spite of showing stretches of good game, especially between the minute 60 and 70, when Ilkay Gündoğan (60') and Pedri González (68') attained to equalise the marker and gave the feeling to have the sufficient impulse to attain a traced back heroic, momentáneamente reached with an autogol of the defender Eric Bailly to the 71' that put the actions 3-2.

However, the 'ghost' of the defensive errors went back to appear and in an interval of so alone 10 minutes, the Villarreal CF attained to give him the turn to the party with a goal of Gonçalo Guedes to the 94' and another of Alexander Sorloth to the 90+9'. This last was especially painful because of a series of failures in the area, including a clear inefectivo of Pau Cubarsí and a bad exit from the bottom by part of Ronald Araújo, the one who 'gave' the possession to the Norwegian so that it annotated the chamber so much for the 'Yellow Submarine'.

Finally, the 'Groguets' would put the brooch of gold with a goal to the 90+12' courtesy of Jose Luis Moral. This action sucedió while the Barça dumped entirely in search of the tie and did not attain to cover properly his retaguardia in front of the lethal charged of the square visitor.

The 'controversial' of the day in the Barça-Villarreal

Nevertheless, further of the evident responsibility of the FC Barcelona in his defeat, to the not loaning attention to the small details of the game that were taken advantage of to a large extent by the Villarreal CF, also is convenient to mention a pair of actions that generated controversy in the meeting and that, further of the final decision, invite to a debate on if they were sanctioned properly or no. One of them was a penalti no pitado on Lamine Yamal, and the another was a new maximum penalty desestimada in the 90+1'.

The first action refers to the penalti no sanctioned on Lamine Yamal, when the native of Esplugues of Llobregat bumped in the area with the defender Eric Bailly. Given the evident difference in terms of physical fortress and the form in that both found in the crossing, the '27' culé was demolished duramente in the zone of goal 'groguet'. Nevertheless, this action was not considered a fault by the referee's body, that simply did case omiso of the incident.

The action between Lamine Yamal and Bailly in which the Barcelona asked penalti just before the 0-2 🧐#LALIGAenDAZN ⚽ pic.twitter.com/kxk4nwrazk
— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_IS) January 27, 2024

The penalti in favour of the Barça revertido by the VAR

The another played that deserves to be evaluated occurred in the minute 90+1', when there was an occasion of danger culé in the area of the 'Yellow Submarine'. Ilkay Gündoğan, with the spherical in his possession, took out a powerful 'latigazo' with direction to the arch. In his path, the balloon struck in the arm of Santi Comesaña, diverting like this his course.

The played that desató the "Is a shame!" Of Xavi 📺

The penalti that signalled Munuera Montero by hand of Comesaña... And that cancelled with intervention of the VAR #LALIGAenDAZN ⚽ pic.twitter.com/swumbbd81c
— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_IS) January 27, 2024

Initially, the referee Munuera Montero went to sanction a penalti by hand of the midfield player 'groguet', but received a call of the VAR to review the played. After analysing it in several occasions, finally, and maybe judging of rigorous way that the arm was hit to the body and that the balloon hit in the elbow, the referee decided revertir the decision. Xavi, at the end of the party, analysed this played of the following way: "This played marked the party. The fourth referee even said me that it was a penalti clear. I do not want to say more... But the images are here", concluded.

The annotation cancelled to Gerard Moreno

Finally, also it suits to mention that the controversies no only affected to the FC Barcelona, but they also prejudiced to the Villarreal Cf. In the minute 21, with the marker 0-0, to the ones of Marcelino García Toral cancelled them a goal that seemed to be valid by a presumptive 'offside'. Gerard Moreno, author of the so much, found in an entirely legal position. However, when seeming, sanctioned an offside positional of Alexander Sorloth, the one who apparently was obstructing the options of Ronald Araújo to block the shot of Moreno. Finally, the decision was backed by the VAR.