The entity has requested clarification on the procedures used when disallowing Abde’s goal
“The images that are offered from the VAR to the clubs and fans do not meet the quality standard required in a high-level competition,” details the Navarrese club.
Club Atlético Osasuna has sent this Wednesday a letter to the Royal Spanish Federation and to Referees Technical Committee to formally request a review of both the technology that supports the arbitration group and its application protocol.
Likewise, the entity has asked the aforementioned organizations for a clarification on the procedures used when disallowing the goal against Ez Abdein the meeting before the Royal Celtic Club from last Monday. In said communication, it has included an audiovisual study, elaborated with three-dimensional technology by the architect Ignacio Tellado.
Osasuna points out in the letter that “defends the use of technology as a valid instrument to help arbitrators fulfill their mission, to deliver justice, in the most efficient way possible”but remember that “In any case, the application of these tools must be rigorous and be at the level of a top-level competition like LaLiga Santander”.
In relation to the annulled goal this Monday and based on the attached audiovisual document, Osasuna points out that “Chimy Avila He was in the right position and Ez Abde’s goal should have gone up on the scoreboard, with the consequent serious damage caused to Club Atlético Osasuna”.
“This study also shows that the lines offered by the VAR were drawn incorrectly, which conditioned that the arbitral resolution was accurate. This is the fact that centers our concern, since the substance of what happened is not whether the arbitration decision favors or harms one club or another, but rather that the method used to draw the lines is inappropriate for a professional category and even for the times in which we live, in which technological progress is an almost daily constant”, he adds.
In the same way, considers the Navarrese club that “The images that are offered from the VAR to the clubs and fans do not meet the quality standard required in a high-level competition”.
OFFICIAL RELEASE | Osasuna asks the RFEF and the CTA for an in-depth review of the technological procedures that assist in arbitration.
— CA OSASUNA (@Osasuna) March 8, 2023
Furthermore, “we would also like clarification on why Ez Abde’s goal only required 53 seconds of reviewtaking as references from the moment the ball crosses the goal line until the referee’s whistle announcing the decision to annul it”.
“The time spent is surprising in contrast to that required the previous day by the VAR to annul a goal by Kike Barja against Sevilla Fútbol Club, a review that then required two minutes and 52 seconds“, point from the red entity.
Osasuna qualifies that “through this writing, it is not intended to obtain any reparation or generate a sterile conflict.” “Nor is it the purpose of this letter to question the performance of the arbitration group, which we respect and consider that it should be helped with the best possible instruments”Explain.
“With a constructive spirit”Club Atlético Osasuna asks the Royal Spanish Football Federation and the Technical Committee of Referees for an in-depth review of both the technological system used and its application procedures.
“It is unacceptable that in one of the best competitions in the world like LaLiga Santander it is not resolved correctly a decision whose nature is exclusively scientific, in which there is no room for interpretations or criteria. It is inadmissible that an arbitration decision be determined by deficient technology or a bad application of it”, criticizes the general director of Osasuna.
“Errors like the one referred to seriously question the use of the adopted technology, which must be infalliblefacilitate the work of the referees and contribute to the arbitration decisions being as fair as possible with the clubs and, therefore, with their hobbies”, the letter concludes.