Club Brugge played champions against Cercle Brugge on Sunday evening. A draw was enough and the score ended up being 0-0. However, it could have looked very different…
About ten minutes before the end of the match, Da Silva Lopes scored the 0-1. But did the midfielder run offside on the free kick before?
The VAR drew the line, but seemed unable to make a decision. Then they called Jonathan Lardot to the screen from Tubize, who eventually disallowed the goal.
Ex-referee Tim Pots comments on the phase. “Lopes is offside on the free kick, because he takes part in the game by blocking Mechele. He hinders him slightly. But Lopes is then the player who scores. The question is: was it a new phase or not? Was there controlled possession?” he told Het Laatste Nieuws.
“The answer is clearly no: the ball caroms against De Cuyper, at the feet of Lopes. Then it remains the same phase and Lopes is offside. Suppose there was control over the ball or that a Club player had cleared it badly, then it was about a new phase and the goal would have counted. A right decision by Lardot to reject it.”
“I even thought it was strange that the VAR called him to the screen, because if you draw the line, it was clear that Lopes was offside. But apparently the VAR thought that there was an interpretation possible as to whether or not it was about a new phase “Perhaps the VAR, given the importance of the phase, would rather involve the referee himself,” Pots concludes.
2024-05-27 05:20:00
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