When you are with him neck water, any controversial decision contrary to your interests is even more transcendental. He Spanish had kept silent until now on arbitration matters, but the disallowed goal to Braithwaite by some hands indicated by the VAR of Joselu and the Expulsion pardoned for Dani García have infuriated the blue and white club, which has issued a statement, as did the Seville after their last draw against Celta. The entity denounces “the disparity of arbitration criteria in the application of the VAR” and recalls some actions suffered during the course in which he feels especially harmed.
He text complete of the statement is as follows:
“RCD Espanyol de Barcelona wants to show its disagreement and concern before the arbitration actions received throughout the season and especially, before the disparity of arbitration criteria in the VAR application.
We understand that different errors in the use of VAR technology have notably harmed our team, something that is more than evident in the last two days. In the past, in Gironaa penalty awarded by the referee to our player, Vinicius de Souza, at the end of the game, it is not reviewed by the VAR despite the fact that there is no punishable action in the area; today, however, the VAR does enter the scene to cancel a legal goal to Martin Braithwaite in the 43rd minute of RCD Espanyol – Athletic Club, when signaling a supposed and implausible willing hand previous by Joselu Mato.
However, what the images from VAR itself confirm is that the striker is clearly grabbed by the arm by the Athletic Club player, They lived, inside the area and, as a consequence, the ball hits his hand, making it impossible for there to be any voluntary action. It was not deemed appropriate today either show second card and therefore the expulsion of Daniel Garcia in the 42nd minute of the game when he cut, without any option to challenge for the ball, a counterattack action by our team in which the law of advantage is applied.
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— RCD Espanyol de Barcelona (@RCDEspanyol) April 8, 2023
We talk about decisive actions for the final result of the last two matches. Actions that add up to comparative torts like those suffered on matchday 2 against Rayo, in which the VAR intervenes to expel Sergi Gomez for an alleged nudge against a rival or on matchday 7, against Valencia, in which the player sent off for the same action, also after a VAR review, was Martin Braithwaite. The VAR did not consider it appropriate to review an identical action on matchday 19 in Almería, when the victim of the action was the Danish striker. A match in which we had the dubious honor of attending the first review on the field by the referee of a millimeter offside several passes before an action that ended in a resounding penalty on Edu Expositowhich would also have led to the expulsion of Cesar de la Hoz.
“We cannot remain impassive”
Once again, and despite the match ending in victory, the match against Betis on matchday 18 it meant a goal annulled to Aleix Vidal due to an alleged previous foul by Puado. A handful who was grabbed by a rival in the area before, in an action to try to get rid of it, accidentally hit the face of that same rival. The VAR did not appear there either.
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And a long etcetera of actions in which the common denominator is the disparate criteria when it comes to using or not the existing VAR technology and the clear prejudice, in our opinion, of our interests.
We do not intend to excuse our own mistakes, which are the ones that mainly place us in a complex sporting situation at the end of the season. We are and will be respectful with the difficult arbitration work and we have shown exquisite empathy so far in the competition despite having repeatedly felt that criteria and decisions were elusive. But we cannot remain impassive before a situation of objective damage and disparate criteria in the use of technology and in the application of the regulation”.