Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva will be the VAR referee of Elche-Valladolid this next day, as announced this Thursday by the Technical Arbitration Committee when the appointments of LaLiga Santander and LaLiga SmartBank referees were made public.
In this way, the Galician referee will direct again, although from the video, a match of Elche for the first time since last January 16. That day he was in the VAR of Cadiz-Elche, starring one of the refereeing scandals of the season, when the goal that tied the draw for the Alicante side was deemed valid (1-1 final) despite the fact that on replay the game was clearly deemed to have Eze Poncewho would eventually be the author of the goal, started offside.
Iglesias Villanueva himself admitted his mistake (“I made a mistake and I apologize to Cádiz,” he wrote in an open letter) and since then the Technical Committee avoids assigning it for a match for both Cádiz and Elche. Until this Thursday, when his name appeared as Elche-Valladolid’s VAR.
Source: La Verdad
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