{"id":1148,"date":"2025-10-29T19:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:45:39","slug":"refereeing-committee-confirms-var-decisions-in-clasico-controversies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/refereeing-committee-confirms-var-decisions-in-clasico-controversies\/","title":{"rendered":"Refereeing Committee confirms VAR decisions in &#8216;Clasico&#8217; controversies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-39.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-39.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-39-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-39-768x446.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The RFEF&#8217;s Refereeing Technical Committee (CTA) has released a new &#8216;Review Time&#8217; segment analysing two contentious incidents from the Real Madrid versus Barcelona &#8216;Clasico&#8217;. They concluded that the correct decisions were reached regarding the penalty claims involving Vinicius Junior and Eric Garcia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Refereeing Technical Committee (CTA) has backed the VAR decisions on the controversial moments from last Sunday\u2019s \u2018Clasico\u2019, including the non-awarded penalty for Lamine Yamal\u2019s challenge on Vinicius Junior and the handball penalty involving Eric Garcia and Jude Bellingham, according to a video released Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the sixth episode of its Review Time programme, the CTA shared a compilation of the most debated incidents from matchday 10 of the Primera Divisi\u00f3n EA Sports, highlighting the Real Madrid\u2013Barcelona (2-1) clash, and confirmed the correctness of the VAR interventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting on the Yamal\u2013Vinicius incident, Marta Frias, spokesperson for the CTA, explained: \u201cAfter planting his foot, Vinicius Junior is struck by Yamal while attempting to shoot. The action is very quick, and the referee correctly interprets that the contact occurred the other way around. The attacker initiates the contact, so it should not be penalised as a penalty. There was no reckless conduct or excessive force, and no caution is warranted\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the penalty initially awarded by Cesar Soto and later overturned by VAR, the CTA added: \u201cThe referee\u2019s original decision was incorrect, and the VAR intervention was justified, as there was a clear and obvious error on the field\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the handball by Eric Garcia at the 49th minute, Frias further commented: \u201cThe ball is heading toward the defender, who, with no legal way to play it, makes a clear extra movement with his left arm, an intentional and unnatural action that blocks the play. The CTA considers the VAR correction fully justified, as the referee\u2019s initial decision not to award a penalty was wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RFEF&#8217;s Refereeing Technical Committee (CTA) has released a new &#8216;Review Time&#8217; segment analysing two contentious incidents from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}