The Refereeing Commission explains the annulment of the two goals that would have given the victory to Pachuca vs. Cougars

In the midst of the controversy generated by the work of referee Adonai Escobedo due to the annulment carried out by the VAR review system of the two goals scored by the Pachuca forward, the Venezuelan Salomón Rondón, The Arbitration Commission tried to lower the decibels of the claims by publishing the audio that the aforementioned central referee had with the person in charge of the video review, Luis Enrique Santander, who determined that the play was invalid and that paved the way for Pumas to win on penalties 3-5.

Without a doubt those around Pachuca were not satisfied with the markings endorsed by the whistler Escobedo after corroborating with the VAR, especially because they consider that said system is not infallible even though the famous vectors are used to mark distance and time of each play on video.

Both plays where Pachuca saw the Venezuelan Rondón’s scores that managed to put them ahead on the scoreboard on the Pumas, were finally not validated by the refereeing body with the approval of the Pumas that with 10 men in 63 minutes of the game they fought in search of taking the game to penalties until they achieved their goal.

However, the complaints have continued on social networks, questioning the effectiveness of the VAR review system, especially because almost ten minutes were used in both plays and in one of them, those who manipulated This system from the stands had to restart the program because it got stuck and could not help in reviewing the plays in the first instance.

Finally, the referee’s decisions were validated and the match was decided on penalties in favor of the UNAM Pumas by a score of 3-5, where the university students They hit all their shots through Guillermo Martínez, Adrián Aldrete, César Huerta, Ulises Rivas and Roberto Ergas.

While for Pachuca they hit their shots Salomón Rondón, Alan Bautista, Oussama Idrissi and Jesús Hernández failedwhich marked the destiny of the people of Hidalgo, leaving behind these controversial markings of the whistlers.

The reality of things is that the VAR has shown its effectiveness, but the controversy will never disappear because those affected will never be satisfied with the markings.

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