the VAR, its injustice and another chapter for the controversy

Argentine Juniors e Independent They were equaling 0-0 in La Paternal 28 minutes into the first half of their match when a play occurred that marked a before and after in the process of the clash refereed by the Buenos Aires native Nicholas Ramirezwith the support of Facundo Tello in it WAS. At that moment, the controversy of the night occurred.

Under the incessant drizzle, the Bug was more than the Red, who took refuge and tried to get some counter. In one of those dangerous actions, a situation arose that exposed the limitations of the VAR in Argentina, a tool that came to do justice but that is not the same justice for everyone.

The paraguayan Gabriel Avalos he received a cross from the right, scored first and his shot seemed to surpass the goalkeeper’s stretch Rodrigo Rey but crashed into the crossbar; on the rebound, Rodrigo Cabral he shook from the right with such bad luck that the ball bounced off the knees of Rey, one of the figures of the match. Did the ball go in or not go in? The referee chose to let play, his assistant did not mark anything, and the VAR was conspicuous by his absence.

The television tried to repeat the play to determine if Cabral’s shot had completely passed Rey’s goal line. Little light, bad location of the cameras, poor definition in the images, everything was conspired so that the doubt remains, installing a feeling of anger in all Argentinos Juniors. To make matters worse, minutes later Independiente’s goal would arrive, heating up the spirits in the emblematic Buenos Aires neighborhood.

“What is unfair about VAR is that in this game there are fewer cameras than there will be tomorrow in the Superclásico,” one of the commentators on the TV broadcast was honest. In summary, the VAR is not the same for everyoneand it is light years away from what is seen in other leagues or the one that took place in the World Cup in Qatar, where the precision was millimeter and avoided any type of discussion later.

Something similar was seen last February, when Tigre visited Racing in Avellaneda and the VAR intervened to validate a “ghost goal” that to this day is still not clear if the ball hit by Braian Leizza passed the line of the arc or not. defended Gabriel Arias.

The VAR and its doubts. A pending account (another one) of Argentine soccer, the world champions league but with a technology that does not even pass the group stage.

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