It is 6 years since the League that Barça and Mateu lost against Atlético

It does exactly six years, on 17 May 2014, the FC Barcelona left to escape a League ​ in the Camp Nou against the Athletic of Madrid. The Barcelona needed a victory in the last party of the season in front of the rojiblancos, but could not happen of the 1-1. Alexis Sánchez advanced to the barcelonistas with an impressive golazo in the first part, but in the Diego Godín empató and gave him the championship to the Madrilenian with an unappealable head butt to the exit of a corner.

The Barça tried it everything, but the colchoneros knew to suffer, held the equalised and carried this League. Nevertheless, all the world remembers that in spite of all this trophy would be in the vitrinas of the Camp Nou if it did not go by Mateu Lahoz and his linesman. Leo Messi converted the 2-1 in a played odd in which it finish signalling offside. In the terrain of game no gave him too much importance, but the images left clear that it was legal goal.

The players did not know it for sure until they did not see the played by television, but if this there was sucedido in this 2020 with VAR, LaLiga probably would have carried it to him the Barcelona. The action in question began with a centre from the right of Dani Alves in the 67 that did not hit to finish anybody in the Barça. Juanfran Advanced to Cesc Fàbregas to touch the balloon, that went him to Messi and fusiló to Courtois to few metres of the goal. The linesman and Mateu understood that it was Cesc the one who touched it, but the reality is that it did not go like this.

Years afterwards, Jorge Pautasso, that went assistant of the Tata Martino, Barcelona trainer in this campaign, recognised that the referee admitted in front of the Argentinian that made a mistake in this played. "It found with Lahoz two years after this season and recognised him that it had made a mistake and that the goal was valid. Lamentably, this League do not have it. With the VAR had won", remembered the Argentinian.

Mateu Spoke on the played

The own Valencian referee spoke of this played in an interview to 'Irradiate MARK', although it recognised that it follows without knowing if this ball did not brush in Fàbregas. "In my case was imperceptible discernir if the balloon had struck in Juanfran or in Cesc. When it finished the party anybody had repaired in this, to slow camera could see that it seems to be that the balloon finish striking. It is an example of played in which ojalá had been the VAR. It is more, to day of today still there are not images clarividentes that this balloon only strikes in Juanfran", explained.

As it uses the VAR right now, perhaps not even with this technology had given him the goal to Messi reading to Mateu. The referees only correct a played if it is clear and does not admit discussion, something that according to Lahoz, does not happen with the so much of the rosarino. Seeing the played one and one thousand times gives the feeling that only it touched it Juanfran, but at the end are the referees the one who have to see it. In this case, not even years afterwards seem to see an action that for many is crystalline.