Foul on Eduardo Quaresma? Pedro Henriques sure on Estrela-Sporting call | OneFootball

Pedro Henriques analyzed the incident that led to Estrela da Amadora’s first goal against Sporting (2-2), considering that the play should be assessed in two distinct moments: the decision made by João Gonçalves and the VAR’s intervention. For the refereeing expert, there was an infringement on Eduardo Quaresma.

The action took place when Leandro Antonetti challenged the Sporting center-back for the ball, using his arms to gain an advantage and get past him. In the analysis, the contact had a direct influence on the play and should have been penalized.

"For me, it’s a foul on Eduardo Quaresma. Leandro Antonetti uses both arms on the Sporting center-back, with the right arm being more evident, twice, on the shoulder. And it is that action that allows him to take the defender out of the play and get past the Lions’ defender, in normal movement," he wrote in the newspaper 'A Bola'.

The expert also explained that the referee’s decision is related to the assessment of the intensity of the contact: "For the referee, that action did not have enough impact or consequence; for me, it did. Therefore, we are dealing with an interpretation of the analysis of the ‘intensity,’ and that is why we enter the VAR’s field of analysis, which, with the play unfolding and in normal movement, believing that what was at stake was the intensity and its interpretation, did not intervene, instead accepting and validating the referee’s interpretation."

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