This Wednesday, in the corresponding party to the first semifinal of the Supercopa of Spain that the FC Barcelona played against the Real Sociedad, Frenkie of Jong committed a penalti for touching the ball with the arm inside the area. A played absurd that shuts few doubts about the resolution of the referee José Luis Munuera Montero, that decreed the fateful point.
What chirría a bit is that the same Munuera Montero arbitrated, does some weeks, a party of LaLiga Santander between the Real Madrid and the Eibar in which there was a played very similar with a very distinct resolution. In said played, Sergio Bouquets touched the balloon with the arm of way very clear and the referee, no only did not signal it, but not even it attended to consult the played with the VAR.
Comparing the two played, were very similar. Frenkie Of Jong touched the balloon with the arm after a lateral centre of Mikel Oyarzábal and the action is little doubtful, since the big majority of referee's analysts consider that José Luis Munuera Montero hit when decreeing the maximum penalty. This yes, the Andalusian referee neither doubted neither hesitated when punishing said action of the Dutch midfield player.
The grave of the situation is the double rasero if we compare it with the hands of Sergio Bouquets in the party of the Real Madrid against the Eibar that took place the past month of December. In this occasion, the arm of the defence madridista was even more despegado of his body -that the one of Frenkie of Jong- when it took out the centre of Mutate.
The penalti that committed Sergio Bouquets against the Eibar was much clearer that the one who committed Frenkie of Jong against the Real Sociedad. The difference is that the camero went of rositas and the Dutch was sanctioned. And what calls more the attention is the fact that José Luis Munuera Montero was the referee of both parties applying criteria so different for similar actions.
It was as it was, the referee's tendencies of the last months concern enough to the barcelonismo. The application of the VAR seems increasingly subjective but the tendencies to the hour to put it in operation seems that they always favour to the same. Something that, in championships equalised, can decant titles or eliminatory.
In spite of the penalti of Of Jong, the FC Barcelona imposed in the batch