Atlético de Madrid coach Diego Simeone considered that video arbitration (VAR) “exposes absolutely everything” and is “fairer with everyone” so if a team is called for more penalties it is “because it is longer in the rival area” and opined that Real Madrid “charge more penalties because it attacks more”.
«I have no doubt that the VAR is fairer with everyone, with those who win, because if they charge you a lot of penalties it is because you are much longer in the rival area. Lately they talk about Madrid, it is clear that they charge him more penalties because he attacks more. I believe that the VAR is still a situation to adjust, but that exposes absolutely everything, “reflected the Argentine coach during the press appearance before the Celta-Atlético Tuesday.
The Atlético coach recalled that prior to the introduction of video refereeing, they had “neither the possibility of realizing something that is seen” in the replays. “Then there are referees and it is people who act from the VAR, they can be wrong,” he added.
When asked a second time about what he thinks the most important teams complain about video arbitration decisions, he considered that the tool allows to see and clarify actions that for the referee on the field can be difficult to see for the speed of the game.
“The VAR clearly exposes something that we can all see, what the referee sees is in the speed of the game, it is difficult sometimes to read well what can happen, to have the possibility of the VAR that another referee with the tranquility of seeing it on television, people in his house see it too, when the game ends we review it … Thus, of course impossible, “he argued.
“Then it is always in a person, who is the one who ends up deciding, who are the people who are in the VAR, and based on that we are going to be harmed or benefited, but now it is clear to us when it is ‘offside’, when the play continues and we all believed by the speed of the ball that it could be criminal and it is not, or when we see a play that we thought was not criminal and it is, and we see it. They do it that way and it shows, we are all more exposed », he added.
Joao Félix will be out against Celta due to ankle bone edema
Atlético de Madrid’s Portuguese striker Joao Félix will be out in this Tuesday’s match against Celta de Vigo in Balaídos (22:00 hours) due to a “traumatic bone edema” in one of his ankles, according to the rojiblanco club .
The Portuguese footballer underwent medical tests that revealed the diagnosis, after being treated for a nuisance in that area during the duel last Friday against Mallorca (3-0), in which he started and retired from the field to the 54 minutes by technical decision, replaced by the Argentine Ángel Correa.
The absence of Joao in Vigo joins that of Diego Costa, sanctioned after seeing his fifth yellow against Mallorca, while Mario Hermoso and the Portuguese Felipe Monteiro are doubtful for the physical discomfort that left them out of the last game.
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