The FC Barcelona 'saved' this Saturday of a possible penalti against, during the second half of the party contested against the Athletic of Madrid in Wanda Metropolitan. It ran the minute 74 of game when a centre from the left of the front of attack rojiblanco was cleared to trompicones by Arturo Vidal. The Chilean did not calculate well in the jump, and the balloon finish hitting in his arm.
However, it did it after it touched him first in the head, by what when considering a rebound would not have been just for the FC Barcelona that pitara penalti. All the team of the Athletic of Madrid asked it to him to Gil Manzano, the referee of the party, that asked calm and expected to that it arrived him the dictámen of the referees of the room of the VAR.
The verdict was clear: there was not penalti. In any another season, without the VAR, is possible that another referee had hammered in front of the requirements of the players of the Athletic of Madrid, to the hour to signal the penalti. It did not go like this the case of Gil Manzano, that kept firm and did not signal the maximum penalty in favour of the 'colchoneros', basically because it never existed.
Arturo Vidal breathed calm, although said calm lasted him hardly some minutes. And it is that, three minutes after the played cancelled by the VAR, the Athletic of Madrid achieved to advance in the marker fruit of a finish of head of Diego Coast, that elevated above Rafinha Alcántara and took to Marc-André Ter Stegen to half exit.
Here, in any case, little could do Arturo Vidal. The FC Barcelona conceded a defensive ease in a punctual error, that served so that the Athletic of Madrid advanced in the marker and put slope up the party for the ones of Valverde. Arturo Vidal and the other players of the FC Barcelona, in any case, followed working so that this no sucediera and attained the goal of the tie like prize.
Good performance of Arturo Vidal against the Athletic
And, regarding Arturo Vidal, in general lines completed a good performance in the centre of the field of the FC Barcelona, and showed that it can be a big resource for Ernesto Valverde in the half field, now that has lesionados to Rakitic and Sergi Roberto, and taking into account that Philippe Coutinho still does not have of the high competitive. A player with experience and harp, as he, always finish being of utility.