VAR Year I: Nadaplete of the Real Madrid, a simple casualidad?

It calls the attention that, just the season in which it has implanted definitively the VAR in the European football -to exception of the Premier League-, have coincided with the landslide to all the levels of the Real Madrid, that lost three titles in an alone week and is completing one of the worst campaigns of his history, especially in LaLiga Santander 2018-19.

The VAR implanted to do juster the decisions of the referees, and although they have given several cases in which the VAR has prejudiced more than has helped, in function of the party, in general lines can say that the tool of the videoarbitraje has been useful to verify or cancel played that they could have been unfair for the majority of teams.

Practically in each party there is some played susceptible controversy of review, and here is where goes in the VAR -sometimes with more tarpaulin that other- to value said played with a second opinion, the one of the referee commissioned in the room of the VOR from the City of the football of Brush Them. Some, the more morbosos, will say that the sinking of the Real Madrid this season is related strictly with the apparition of the VAR.

The true is that the last Champions League conquered by the Real Madrid arrived with some controversial decisions in distinct rounds, especially in parties in which the merengues were benefited against teams like Bayern Munich, Juventus and Athletic of Madrid. Penaltis Debatable, goals after a played offside, expulsions that did not go it and others that yes... The Real Madrid was benefited in more than an occasion, of the same way that went it also other teams owing to the errors of assessment of the referees.

Now that it has implanted the VAR, has grown also the 'justice' inside the football, and the unfair decisions -although some show reacios in this regard- are minimising . This does not have why affect in the fact that the Real Madrid leave third in the classification of LaLiga, or that already was deleted of competitions like the Glass of Rey or the Champions League.

In fact, in some of the last parties of the merengues there was controversial, when believing some -and with foundation- that the VAR had helped unfairly to the group of Solari. It occurred for example in the 1-2 of the Real Madrid in Amsterdam, in the gone of eighth of Champions League, when the referee cancelled of controversial way a goal of Tagliafico when understanding that Tadic had bothered to Courtois, when really hardly took part.

Also it did noise the collegiate Churches Villanueva with the controversial penalti that signalled in the last minutes of the Raise-Real Madrid, and that to the dessert propició the white triumph. The referee understood that there was penalti of Doukouré on Casemiro, when the repetition left clear that the Brazilian threw of blatant way after noticing a slight brush.

The VAR and the shipwreck of the Real Madrid, together but no revolved

In that occasion, the VAR did not act to cancel the decision of the referee, when treating of a question of 'assessment'. Neither it went out at all happy, by the way, the Athletic of Madrid after the last 'derbi' contested in Wanda Metropolitan. A goal cancelled to Morata by offside non-existent was the main reason, although they gave also other controversial decisions that the VAR did not undo.

Valuing it all from a global perspective, can say therefore that neither the VAR neither the arbitration have prejudiced to the Real Madrid this season, but in punctual occasions have arrived even to favour him. And, not even like this, the team chaired by Florentino Pérez has been able to give the face in the important moments.

The clearest proof is that the madridismo few times has complained of the referees this campaign, but it has focalizado his criticisms to the bad management of Florentino Pérez and the deficient performance of the players. If the 'empire merengue' has fallen this course, has not been by fault of the VAR... And neither thanks to him. Simply it has been by his own weight. And this reality hurts in the capital.