It DID not SEE THE KEY ACTION OF THE BARÇA-GIRONA!
Pere Pons: "it Thought that it was lacking mine, if the VAR says that it is red, will be truth"
Published:24/09/2018 - 01:04h
Updated:24/09/2018 - 08:49h
After several months signalling his tarpaulin, the VAR faces one of his first controversies by a doubtful expulsion to Clément Lenglet. Pere Pons, to the that the Frenchman struck in the Barça-Girona, ensured after the meeting that does not know if the red is just
The FC Barcelona had to struggle to the end this Sunday to save a tie against an effective Girona, in a duel that complicated after a doubtful expulsion to Clément Lenglet. What seemed a played haphazard between the one of Beauvais and a rival midfield player converted it the VAR in red, after warning to Gil Manzano that saw the taking repeated and decided to send to the central to the caseta.
In the middle of the discussion generated by the application of a technology that does not do miracles, more complication have added the words of Pere Pons, victim by the action of the Frenchman although the first verdict indicated a fault that also existed of the Catalan footballer. As it collects the journalist Helena Condis, of the 'Chain COPE', he same had his doubts.
"If the VAR says that it has given me a codazo will be truth. I do not know as it has gone. Only I know that I receive the hit. It has not said me at all Lenglet I give him the hand because it thought that it was lacking mine at the beginning", commented in mixed zone, in which it had to answer to the questions of the means that demanded him that it put light on one of the keys of the clash.
In front of the insistence of the journalists, the gerundense repeated his speech, ensuring that because of the speed of his encontronazo does not know if it was necessary so much punishment for the Barcelona. "I do not see at all, I do not know if it is just the expulsion of Lenglet. I receive a hit. I do not know if it is a codazo or no... If it says it the VAR will be truth", reiterated, happening the responsibility to the referees.
The doubts that produces the played between Pere Pons and Clément Lenglet
As it aims Pere Pons, is clear that the codazo exists, but what changes the result is if there is or no voluntariedad. The debate, further of the crash between both players, produces by the gesture of the French, that can interpret like unnatural according to the point of view that observes .
The doubt roots in the position of the body of Lenglet, whose posture, more bent, can indicate that his elbow raised is fruit of the inertia, since it tries a change of direction and receives a hit of his opponent. In any case, remains clear that the VAR is a big help, but that does not go to avoid to 100% that there are doubts in each meeting.
