A week from hell for Barcelona and its fans. First a 1-4 loss at home by PSG and elimination from the Champions League, and then a definite ‘goodbye’ to the title on Sunday, after a 3-2 loss to Real Madrid. And while the Catalans can only themselves to blame for the PSG loss, considering that Ronald Araujo got the red card after only half an hour, they sure blame the VAR technology and the referee for a loss at Santiago Bernabeu. Barcelona won two times (1-0 and 2-1) and still lost 3-2, but their second goal in the first half, when the score was 1-1 was disallowed (confirmed by VAR) as the ball allegedly didn’t cross the goal line after Yamal’s shot.Xavi: Injustice! We were better than Real Madrid, everyone saw the ball crossed the goal lineBarcelona’s president Joan Laporta was so angry that he considers asking for a reply match.”Yesterday there were several debatable plays, but above all there is one that is key and can lead to a change in the result of the match. As you can imagine, I am talking about Lamine Yamal ‘s ghost goal . As a club, we want to be sure of what happened and I inform you that from Barcelona we will require the Technical Committee of Referees and the Spanish Football Federation to provide us with all the images and audio generated by the action” he said for the club’s website.❗Laporta: “If it is confirmed that there was a refereeing mistake in Lamine Yamal’s goal yesterday, I don’t rule out asking for El Clásico to be replayed… I want all the images and audio recordings!” pic.twitter.com/fOoKqHNldG— Barça Universal (@BarcaUniversal) April 22, 2024 And Laporta already announced that if the Committee confirms it was a goal, the club will want to play with Real again.”If, once the documentation has been analyzed, we understand that an error occurred in the assessment of the play, which is what we think, we will take all appropriate actions to reverse the situation without ruling out any necessary legal actions. If it is confirmed that it was a legal goal, we will go further and ask for a replay of the match just as it happened in a European match due to a VAR error” he said.The title returns to Madrid! Bellingham the executioner brings an end to Barca’s hopesAnd how is it possible that VAR couldn’t decide with 100% accuracy if it was a goal or not? Well, after looking all the angles from all the cameras, it was impossible to determine with utmost certainty that the whole ball went into the goal. And the most embarrassing thing about the situation – La Liga is the only league among TOP 5 in Europe not to have goal line technology! This almost unbelievable fact was criticized by all relevant football people, especially after this match. The reason for this is that La Liga president Javier Tebas reportedly refused to pay 2.6 million pounds – the sum required to implement the technology. He was again subject of criticism for that decision, for which he tweeted by posting photos of situations when goal-line technology was wrong and wrote ‘No comment’.LA LIGA – MATCHDAY 32FridayAth.Bilbao – Granada 1-1 (1-1)/Guruzeta 24 – I. Williams 6 og/SaturdayCelta – Las Palmas 4-1 (2-1)/Aspas 31, 76, Swedberg 39, Douvikas 71 – Herzog 11/Rayo Vallecano – Osasuna 2-1 (0-1)/Chavarria 80, Palazon 84 – Gomez 29/Valencia – Betis 1-2 (0-1)/Pepelu 66 pen – Perez 19, 77/Girona – Cadiz 4-1 (2-0)/Garcia 9, Martin 22, Dovbyk 71, Portu 82 – Escalante 81/SundayGetafe – Sociedad 1-1 (1-1)/Latasa 29 – Barrenetxea 13/Almeria – Villareal 1-2 (0-1)/Lozano 30 – Akhomach 25, Sorloth 90+2/Alaves – Atl.Madrid 2-0 (1-0)/Benavidez 15, Rioja 90+2/Real Madrid – Barcelona 1-1 (1-1)/Vinicius Jr 18 pen – Christensen 6/Monday22:00: (2.00) Sevilla (3.05) Mallorca (3.90)***odds are subject to change***
