Lately the controversy has installed even more of the normal in the Spanish football. In this occasion, the party with more controversy of the day was the FC Barcelona-Athletic of Madrid, in which they signalled neither more neither less than three penaltis. One of them went in favour of the Barça, transformed magistralmente by Leo Messi with a species of 'Panenka', and the others two favourable to the group rojiblanco, that hit in both by mediation of Saúl Ñíguez.
But the first of the two launchings from the 11 metres that marked Saúl had cheat, since the colchoneros needed two opportunities to mark. In the first, Diego Coast was not hit and saw like Marc-André ter Stegen cut across it to him of spectacular form. But while all the culés celebrated the stop that avoided the tie to one, from the VAR said him to Hernández Hernández that it was necessary to repeat the maximum penalty by fault of the goalkeeper barcelonista.
The German archer advanced a few centimetres and did not have any foot in the line when Coast hit him to the balloon. From it does a year, the International Board is insisting a lot in this new norm that forces to the goalkeepers to keep a foot in the line when the thrower shoots. Therefore, with the regulation in the hand, the VAR did well in signalling him to the Canarian referee that the shot had to repeat. Besides, the referee showed him yellow cardboard to Ter Stegen, since the norm says it like this.
The ex of the Borussia Mönchengladbach could not do at all to stop a minute afterwards the shot of Saúl, that did not fail. The norm forced to keep the two feet in the line, but almost any guardameta fulfilled it and almost any referee commanded to repeat penaltis therefore. Since it changed and it allowed take out a foot, the judges yes are used to to have a lot of care with this and from the VAR also are used to to control it warning him if some put jumps it to him.
All the penaltis of the Barça-Athletic had to repeat
The problem is that there is another rule that says that all the penaltis would have to repeat if some player goes in in the area before kicking it. If the launching finish in goal and is one of the attackers those who has gone in, will have to repeat always, whereas if it is a defender the one who goes in and the maximum penalty fails , also will have to go back to throw. Having this clear, can say that all those that threw in the Barcelona-Athletic had to repeat.
In the first, Ivan Rakitic goes in to the just area before Coast throw, by what as it fails, would have to have repeated. At the end, it went back to launch by the of Ter Stegen, but also could have been by this. In which it throws Saúl seems that it is Marcos Llorente the one who goes in in the half moon before it launch, by what also would have to have repeated therefore. In the case of the of Leo Messi, Rakitic goes back to go in before and even Luis Suárez could be inside also. Finally, in the second of Saúl so much Belt like Jordi Alba are inside, by what also had to repeat.
The problem is that the VAR did not say at all in any of these shots by this part of the regulation, but yes did it with Ter Stegen. This is due to that from the International Board asked to loan a lot of attention to these launch, but did not say at all of other norms like this. Referees and VAR would have to clear and unify criteria because at the end they are the teams and the fans the only that go out prejudiced by not understanding why in a meeting yes signals this and in another no pita this same. In this case, to the culés did not do them any grace what happened.