Var rayo Barça | Why did the ray-barça continue to play without the VAR?

It is not usual to happen, but sometimes it happens. This Sunday, during the game they played the Ray and the Barçahe OUR failed. The referee of the party, Mateo Busquets Ferrerwas notified that the monitor enabled for plays review did not work, so the game stayed, until the second part, without video arbitration.

Many voices then claimed that the match played in Vallecas should be suspended until the technical incident that left him without var was restored. However, the meeting continued. The controversy was revived when Mateo Busquets sanctioned as a penalty an action of Chavarría and Laminethat Barca transformed into the first goal of the match.

Lightning

From the ray bench they even offered their own monitor so that the referee reviewed his decision, something that obviously cannot do, while the local coach, Iñigo PérezDam of indignation, the four referee came to tell him: “We leave the field, huh!”. However, it is unlikely that the referee had corrected his decision in the VAR, however debatable it was, since the new guidelines of this season collect that the VAR does not intervene in interpretation plays in which the sanctioned contact exists, as was this.

Despite the understandable protests of the ray, the arbitration team was doing what it had to do. Both the VAR protocol of the FIFA and the general regulation of the RFEF specify that A party cannot be suspended temporarily or definitely because video barbitraje does not work.

What the regulations say

“When the arbitration team is aware of a failure that impacts these technologies (var and out of semi -automatic play), You must communicate it to both teams immediatelyas well as the moment when technology will be operational again, “specifies the federative regulation for this type of situation.

In other words, The VAR is not essential for a first or second division match to be playedthe two categories in which it is enabled. Nor in Champions or in any other competition in the world.

The VAR is not essential for a game to play. / Alberto Estevez / Efe

There are precedents. In a Manchester City-Schalke From Champions, in 2019, the Spanish Carlos del Cerro Grande interrupted the match to inform the captains of the fall of the VAR. Something similar to what happened in a Tottenham-Nottingham Forest Premier League last April. A Leeds-Arsenal Of 2022, it was delayed half an hour, although in that case a general blackout also measured in the stadium that affected the communication between the referees of the field.

It is possible to play without var

In short, it is legal, and even mandatory if it does not work, play without var. In fact, at the end of last season, before the strike call made by workers of Mediapro, a company that performs the television signal and that of the VAR, In the RFEF they were raised as the last emergency alternative that the affected matches were played with video barbitraje. A plan that, finally, did not have to be carried out.