The decision taken on Friday by the disciplinary committee of the Football Federation of Belgium mark a first very dangerous when ordering repetition of the first division league match on December 23 between Anderlecht and the Genk. The decision was upheld as VAR and the referee of that match were understood to have made a mistake.
The decision was in response to a case filed by Genkwho ended up losing the match 2-1, and criticized the poor implementation of the regulations due to a penalty in their favor that ended with a goal but the referee of the match, Nathan Verboomen, ordered to cancel it, in the 22nd minute and with the score 0-0. He canceled it because he understood that a striker joined the team then. Genk when in the pictures you can see the defenses of those Anderlecht. And this requires, given that the penalty was first missed, that the match must be repeated, according to the aforementioned opportunity.
In a statement, the Genk announced, as the injured club, the decision of the federation’s disciplinary committee to repeat the match, which must be continued from the moment of the error, saying Verboomen erred “in the application of the regulations” and it “influenced the development of the match”, since the decision It was also not corrected from the VAR room. video arbitration. This decision also contradicts that adopted by the referee department of the Federation, which did not consider on January 8 that it had to be repeated.
A decision that constitutes a first extremely dangerous and worry to the European sports body, which understands that the decision is against the VAR protocol itself which is included in the Rules of the Game of the International Board (THEIFAB) and where it is forbidden to replay a match due to a VAR error. Specifically in the “Match Accuracy” section.
The text says the following: “As a general rule, the match will not expire for the following reasons: errors in the operation of the VAR technology (as occurs in automatic goal determination or DAG); wrong decisions in which VAR participates (since VAR is part of the refereeing body); decisions not to review an incident and reviews of unreviewed situations or decisions.”
Source: La Verdad
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