The VAR arrived to reduce the errors and referee's controversies. At least that is his purpose. In the practice, the assistance vídeoarbitral follows leaving a lot that wish and the Tuesday touched him to the Athletic live one of these bitter nights that players and technical body wants to erase fast of his memories. The 'colchoneros' fell in a party very parejo and trabado in front of the Bayer Leverkusen (2-0) in a party that could have gone with advantage to the rest.
In addition to the controversy, really happened little in the first act. The visitors, with sensitive drops in his eleven, had to entrust to Ivo Grbić in the arch and to a defence improvised with Felipe, Mario Beautiful and Axel Witsel on line of three deep down together with Nahuel Molina and Reinildo. Up, Diego Simeone bet by his stellar pair: Joao Félix and Álvaro Morata, but was not a good night for both. Particularly for the '19', lost in the field.
On the minute 23 arrived the controversy. A hand clamorosa of the central Edmond Tapsoba in the area happened careless for the main Michael Oliver and for the judge of line. This, however, can go through the rapidity of the action. However, the striking is that neither Chris Kavanagh, referee assistant of video, neither Stuart Attwell, his assistant, sanctioned the penal hand from the offices of the VAR. And the action was reviewed.
After the embarrassment, the 0-0 kept in front of the rest. With all paints it so that the party finish in a tie without goals, Simeone bet by Antoine Griezmann in his moment fetish (minute 63). Also ingresaron Ángel Correa and Matheus Cunha in the final stretch, but the venues were those that more tried it in the complement and, when the time expired, obtained reward.
Hard punishment for an Athletic without ideas
Although the 'colchoneros' accumulated people up in the final stretch, went the Leverkusen the one who broke the zero with forcefulness. Jeremie Frimpong, ingresado to 20 minutes for the end, invented two assistances to clear the party, first to Robert Andrich in the 84' and three minutes later to Moussa Diaby. The defensive errors and the fault of ideas left with the empty hands to an Athletic that in the next day will go to Belgium to confront to some Witches in series.