The odd defence of Churches Villanueva of the penalti pitado to Casemiro

LaLiga 2018-19 premièred does some months giving him the welcome to the VAR, but what of start was a promising system, little by little has finish buried in doubts. The meetings resolved without too many problems in the first days have given step to the líos and to the interminable controversies in the last weeks, something that has put under the lupa to a referee's community that treats to carry the pressure with naturalidad.

What does not collaborate too much to improve the adaptation of the videoarbitraje are the attitudes like the one of the Real Madrid, that put the cry in the sky after what considered a flagrant error in his against and since has seen benefited by trials more benevolent of the trencillas. Florentino Pérez arrived even to call to the president of the Real Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF), and already is collecting the fruits.

The one who has defended this Wednesday in the same headquarters of the RFEF has been Churches Villanueva, questioned for signalling a discutidísimo penalti on Casemiro. With the marker equalised, Cheik Doukouré tried to clear a balloon divided, but did not contact with the leather and neither with the Brazilian, that did theatre and attained to deceive to the referee, that carried the action to the eleven metres.

Taking advantage of the physical proofs to the referees, the Galician has conceded a brief period of time to the media, contributing something of light to his point of view on the mentioned meeting: "In the field it is necessary to take decisions in tenth of second. The referees are accustomed to this and you know that it is a played complicated. It is a mine decision absolutely. What pité in this moment, here remains ".

The one of Puentedeume has confirmed that it did not signal the maximum penalty to instances of any of his assistants, and has refused to give explanations on his election, although it has concretised that yes it has reviewed the party in video: "The referees every time that do a party do afterwards an autoanálisis and put what think that has been ours performance. This arrives to the Technical Commission and are the attendants to evaluate our performance. I do not go to speak of played".

Besides, the coruñés has explained that the referees already expected the stir generated in spite of the implantation of the VAR, because it is not a system 100% infalible and still needs time to win in efficiency and confidence: "If we put us in this grey and dangerous zone of the interpretation is when we can have problems. The VAR needs a time of adaptation".

"We knew that it went to happen. We did not know in which moment of the season, if at the beginning, if during, if now to the end of the League... But we knew that it went to suceder, that there would be doubts especially by the most controversial point of the VAR, that is the line of intervention", has commented, recalcando that treat to carry these subjects with the greater naturalidad possible.

Churches Villanueva contradicts

The most curious in the speech of Churches Villanueva is a remarkable contradiction, that have protested fans of all the colours, experts, footballers and several members of the Raise. "If I am arbitrating and I commit an error, the well and the just for the football is that my mate correct me and say me, 'Male, made a mistake. Please, they see to see this played'", has valued, something that precisely no sucedió in the Ciutat of València. There was not review by part of the Galician of crossing between Casemiro and Doukouré, and is thus that finish deriving in a grave error.