On Tuesday, the Arbitration Council (CA) of the FPF used the analysis of the cancellation of the penalty against Evanilson at the Porto Rio Avenue stadium (the game in the 20th round of the League ended 0-0) to warn that it condemns being forced to fall into this zone.
In February’s edition of VAR audio, Joao Ferreira, vice-president of CA, analyzed the entire game, which took place in just 3 minutes. He explained that the referee, “in view of the fall” of the Porto striker, awarded a penalty because he was far from the action and because his assistant told him that the defender was trying to play the ball – which he never did. .
Commenting subsequently on the VAR intervention, João Ferreira began by explaining the CA doctrine: “Our understanding and advice to referees is that in a penalty shoot-out there must be an action by the defender that creates a cause/effect for the attacker. Small contacts are part of football. Maybe in the center of the field the referees call a foul, but we don’t want a pseudo-penalty or a micro-penalty. Because a penalty should be something obvious, since we are talking about a decisive decision in the game, which usually leads to a goal that should have an impact.”
Regarding Evanilson’s specific fall: “The VAR, seeing the image, seeing the contact, understands that [este] does not cause a fall since the attacker will be dragging his foot and it is not enough for him to cause a fall since the player will fall anyway. And that’s what made him call the referee. And the judge used the same interpretation: he already pulled, there is contact, but it is not enough, and we will cancel it. The question is, is this punishment tolerable or not? In our opinion, no. There is another image where the contact is visible, but the question is: does this contact cause the attacker to fall? No. In this sense, this intervention [do VAR] It’s the right thing to do and the referee did it well.”
Author: João Moniz
Source: CM Jornal
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