Celta Vigo captain Iago Aspas threw the pitchside VAR monitor to the bottom after the on-field referee had used it to overturn a late penalty choice that had been awarded in Celta’s favour throughout their 1-1 draw with Sevilla in LaLiga on Saturday.
Aspas had been substituted along with his staff successful 1-0, shortly after teammate Renato Tapia had been despatched off, and was on the sidelines as Sevilla ahead Youssef En-Nesyri equalised within the 84th minute.
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Nonetheless, 10-man Celta thought that they had an opportunity to reclaim their lead and take all three factors within the dying minutes of the match when referee Alejandro Hernandez awarded a penalty with Anastasios Douvikas adjudged to have been pulled to the ground by Jesús Navas.
Aspas was seemingly incensed after Hernandez overturned his unique choice following recommendation from the VAR and the previous Liverpool ahead took his frustrations out on the pitchside monitor earlier than being ushered away by a Celta coach.
“The stability at all times falls on the identical facet,” Aspas advised DAZN Sport after the ultimate whistle. “And at the moment when it might have favoured us, he goes to the VAR to see it when all of Spain has seen it.
“We’ve got been by means of 12 days and in seven video games the stability at all times falls the opposite means. We need to be the very best league on the earth and we aren’t advancing like this.”
Celta, who’re coached by former Actual Madrid and Liverpool supervisor Rafa Benitez, are 18th within the LaLiga desk having received simply considered one of their 12 matches thus far this season.
Benitez has beforehand hit out at VAR when his facet had a purpose dominated out of their 2-1 LaLiga defeat at Las Palmas on Oct. 3.
Celta thought they opened the scoring within the first half by means of Jørgen Strand Larsen but it surely was disallowed after a VAR assessment adjudged Las Palmas defender Mika Mármol was fouled within the buildup.
“How can we not lose ultimately? If we rating a authorized purpose they usually take it away from you,” Benitez mentioned in his postmatch interview.
“In that play, my participant is forward, he’s in entrance, I am watching it proper now. I do not perceive the place the foul is. We must play one thing else if that may be a foul.
“Anybody can see it, it is mindless to name these issues. It may possibly’t be, that is soccer. We’re not speaking about pingpong. We’re frequently rowing in opposition to the present.”
