UEFA considers that Italian Orsato was right to cancel Pedrosa’s goal

The controversial PSV Eindhoven – Sevilla Especially last night was marked by Pedrosa’s goal being disallowed due to the previous handball and ending up in the Sevillian team’s goal.

The question is, should the referee disallow the goal? According to UEFA and referee sources consulted by MD, the decision made by Italian Orsato was correct. The decision adopted by the expert referee at the request of the VAR referee, Massimiliano Irrati. Unlike what happens in our country, the referee did not go to the monitor to review because Irrati, the referee expert who was with Orsato from the VOR room last night, did not motivate him to do so.

In analyzing the play from VAR, he warned that there was “immediacy” in the hand of Pedrosa and the achievement of the goal. The player himself gives the ball with his hand and ends the play.

International Board rules state that it will be considered a handball penalty, even if it is unintentional, as could be interpreted yesterday when “he scores a goal immediately after the ball touches his hand or arm, even which is not intentional.”

Therefore, here it is not considered whether the hit has a hand attached to the body, as it happened, but rather its consequence. And, according to current IFAB regulations, this is well indicated by the referee and the success of VAR.

The handball, even if it is unintentional, which immediately ends a goal, is penalized.

Another thing is that these types of actions should be checked in the future. Both sources consulted by MD agree on one thing. We’ll see if that happens because it’s worth remembering what happened with Kilian Mbappe’s controversial goal in the Nations League final that ended France’s 2-1 victory over Spain, preceded by Eric Garcia’s clearance. The IFAB had to specify that this type of action, where there is no clear attempt to clear the ball, should be considered offside. What was the position of the PSG forward that day?

Sergio Ramos’ action is the referee’s interpretation

And then there was the play of the maximum penalty by Sergio Ramos in the last moments of the match when Tillman came in and the VAR didn’t correct him once so he went to the monitor to see it. In this case it was the referee who whistled it, it was not a clear and obvious mistake that forced the VAR to change the decision. Surprisingly, Massimiliano Irrati will play again tonight as VAR and with another Spanish team. Because it was designated by UEFA for the clash at the Metropolitan Stadium between Atlético de Madrid and Feyenoord the Frenchman called Letexier.