Espanyol has decided that it will go to ordinary justice to reach the ultimate consequences to defend the club's interests in the case of the ghost goal that the VAR validated against Atlético in Cornellà (3-3) on the penultimate matchday of the 2022 League. 2. 3. Espanyol was relegated the following week.
“Last Wednesday, courts 32 and 47 of Madrid provided new evidence” of an alleged manifest error by the Spanish video arbitration, which damaged the attempt to save the parakeet. The blue and white club “immediately” placed itself in the hands of its legal services, which have chosen “to take legal action in the field of ordinary justice” since the club understands that “the omission of images in a decisive play” has been demonstrated. for that match and for the qualifying outcome of the season.”
“Today we know that what happened in this match (the concession of a goal to Atlético de Madrid who never had to get on the scoreboard) goes far beyond understandable human errors in the sporting field. That decision and other situations, in our opinion still incomprehensible today, decisively influenced a relegation that, we understand, we could have fought to avoid on the field of play on the last matchday played against UD Almería," the statement states.
Espanyol, at the time, already challenged the match, which was played on May 24, before the Competition Committee. But on May 31, Competition declared itself incompetent to make any decision. The parakeets want to get to the end of the matter in the non-sports courts.
