The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), in accordance with the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), has published this Monday the audios related to the most controversial plays of the Santiago Bernabéu classic that ended with a white victory (3-2). The document shows conversations between the match referee, César Soto Grado, with the VOR room, headed by Sánchez Martínez, and with the Real Madrid and Barça players.
"We don't have goal technology," Soto Grado told Gündogan about the ghost goal not awarded to Lamine Yamal. "The best thing is to wait, we are not in a hurry, it is a very important decision," the referee continued while his teammates in the Las Rozas room reviewed all the angles. "Not this one either," "nothing," said Sánchez Martínez and company as they quickly reviewed the five available angles of Lunin taking the ball.
Without any analysis of the images, all of them discarded instantly without trying to draw conclusions with the position of the white goalkeeper or with any other aspect of the image that would help confirm whether the ball had crossed the goal line, the members of the VAR transmitted to the referee main thing that "there is no evidence that the ball went in".
Of the other great play that marks the match, Cubarsí's penalty against Lucas Vázquez, Soto Grado repeatedly repeats "trip" to defend his decision in the face of the group protest of several Barça players. "They tell me it's a penalty," the referee warns the Blaugrana about the VAR review. "I think it's clear," the Castilian-Leonese braid confirms to João Cancelo.
Regarding Barça's first goal, a header from Christensen in a corner after jumping over Kroos, to whom the Dane put his arms on the shoulders, the VOR room concluded that there was "nothing" punishable. "You support him a little to finish and that's it," he told Soto Grado.
A trip by Camavinga on Lamine Yamal on the edge of the area that resulted in a yellow card was also admitted of doubt. Valverde, almost at the same height of the play, prevented the Frenchman from seeing the red card by being the last defender. "Yellow," said up to three voices, practically in unison, between the referee, the lineman and the VOR room. It should be remembered that the VAR should not comment on the referee's plays in the middle of the action, but is a subsequent consultative body in plays where there has been a manifest error related to an offside, an expulsion, a penalty or a failure to identify the referee. a player.
"Nothing, nothing, nothing," he reacted immediately in the other controversial action, a fall inside Fermín's area due to a possible obstruction by Rüdiger. "Check completed. Excellent, César," the VAR simply said to Soto Grado, who addressed Fermín to tell him "stronger."
"Ferran, I don't want nonsense. You already entered the Super Cup very upset. Don't get upset. Rüdiger, don't get upset. Don't get upset," Soto Grado later warned the Valencian and the German, who had a small scuffle. "The game is very calm, let's all calm down. We were calm until you came out," he later referred to Torres who avoided him with his gaze. In another clash between Koundé and Vinícius, the situation was resolved with a yellow card for each one. "For you and for you. You all calm me down, relax," he said vehemently to both players.
"Pedri is clear. I blow the whistle on all the ones. I have the habit of blowing the whistle on the ones that are," the referee from the Rioja school said, with a smile, to the Canary Islands Barça player about a foul called on Fermín, who contacted him from behind. with a Brahim Díaz who went to the ground after a reverse.
