The UEFA communicated today that during this season of the Champions Leaguand they will be published the Explanations of some refereeing episodes who will involve the OUR.
Already on this first day, which will end tonight, there were many episodes contested by the teams, but only a few saw the intervention of the Var to change the decision taken on the field by the race director. One of these concerned theInterin the victorious trip to Amsterdam.
The Nerazzurri of Cristian Chivu, when the game was still on 0-0, were seen Remove a penalty kick assigned by the English referee Michael Oliver for a I fail your Marcus Thuram. After the On Field Review, the race director changed his decision after the Var room reported that the French striker had freed himself from the marking of a defender irregularly. A dubious choice, which, however, UEFA included in the list of VAR episodes explained on its site through a short video by the arbitration experts.
In addition to the episode of Amsterdam, the episodes analyzed and explained on the UEFA website are as follows:
- Bayern Monaco-Chelsea: goal canceled for offside in Palmer
- PSG-CATAANTA: penalty assigned for Musah’s foul
- Liverpool-Atletico Madrid: penalty removed from the Reds
- OLYMPIACOS-PAFOS: revocation red card to Taremi
- Slavia Prague-Bodo Glimt: penalty removed from the Czechs for foul in attack
- Real Madrid-Marseille: red card in Carvajal
On this list, as mentioned, there are only the episodes that saw the VAR change the decision made from the field live by the referees. Therefore they do not include for example two contested decisions, such as the penalty assigned to Borussia Dortmund against Juventus (Kelly’s hand foul) and the one in favor of Real Madrid against the Marseillefor another hand foul in the area.
