The VAR referee, ‘suspicious’ and has a history

The boat return from Milan touched by the defeat, worried about the complicated situation that remains for him again in the Champions League, but above all very angry with the performance of the referee. After the first heated statements, they saw repeated plays and anger and resentment grew. And from the barça dressing room they pointed directly at the Dutchman Pol van Boekelwho is responsible for VAR in the San Siro match. “It was prepared, but it was not explained”, denounced the authorized sources of the Barcelona team. because they remembered that Van Boekel was leading to VAR at the party of Munich and hurt too boat the day before in Europe.

The azulgrana expedition returned at dawn after the game and they did not stop thinking about the last action of the game, the unmarked hands of dumfries. And even after hours, they still do not understand why the penalty was not signaled from VAR, which was clear, and the referee was not even told to look at it on the monitor, as happened before in other games of game. . Property Vincicthe main referee, justified his decision and explained to several members of the Barça staff that he was the referee of VAR told him there was no penalty and no doubt, so he didn’t need to look into it.

Therefore, in the club they consider ‘suspicious’ Van Boekel, that Munich had already hit them. Then he understood that there was no penalty Davis a Dembele nor did he ask the referee to see it, despite the fact that the television images were also very clear. And for this reason they point and suspect the Dutch, because in both cases the repetitions are very clear and there is no room for doubt. But in both cases Boekel decided that there was no infraction and did not even recommend the head referee to review it.

Van Boekel He is famous in the Netherlands because his mistake from VAR stole a League from PSV and gave it to Feyenoord. And he also became sadly famous in the last European Championship, where even Robert Rossettirefereeing president of UEFA, put a decision of Van Boekel from VAR as an example of a wrong decision. It’s a hand in Turkey-Italy, the opening match of the Euro. The Dutchman, like Tuesday in Milan, also decided that it was not a hand and that it was not necessary to check it. The mistake was so egregious that UEFA admitted it publicly. And in the semifinals he messed it up again with a penalty match Sterling in England-Denmark.

In his ‘curriculum’ there are other serious mistakes, such as the lack of donarumma was not called last year in Real Madrid-PSG and that caused the anger of the Parisians at the Bernabéu, or the famous offside of Mbappe together Eric Garcia in the Nations League final. The surprising thing is that with such a record and after Barça’s injury in Munich, UEFA decided that he would return to VAR for the match against Inter. At the Barça club they don’t explain it to him. And remember that in addition to the hand of dumfriesthere is a clear penalty for pushing Lewandowskithe expulsion is forgiven Çalhnaloglu and the impermissible purpose Peter also debatable.