Marcelo Paz blasts refereeing after Corinthians defeat: 'Costly' | OneFootball

This Sunday (3), Corinthians were defeated 2-1 away from home by Mirassol in a match valid for the 14th round of the Brasileirão, with goals scored by Edson Carioca and Carlos Eduardo, while Dieguinho pulled one back for the black-and-white side.

After the match, marked by a series of controversies involving the refereeing in both goals scored by the opposing team, Corinthians football executive Marcelo Paz expressed strong dissatisfaction with the way referee Matheus Candançan handled the game: “A performance that was not good and, coincidence or not, all the doubtful plays went against Corinthians. First, the sending-off of Mirassol’s center-forward, Edson Carioca, which, in my view, the on-field decision could have been maintained. The referee’s accessibility there in the play led to a review being requested. Then afterward came a debatable penalty, totally debatable, whether it really was a foul or not. This time the on-field decision prevailed. VAR did not call it.”

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“Another loss for Corinthians. If it had been called, maybe it would have been reviewed. And another play, this one totally indisputable, is Mirassol’s second goal, where there’s a stamp there, I think from Shaylon on Garro. A clear foul that VAR should have called and that directly interfered with the play. Mirassol scored and that foul was not given. So, once again, we come here to talk about this. It’s bad, we are repeatedly having to bring up damage done to Corinthians and everyone saw what happened,” the executive added. 

Paz also returned to the issue of refereeing when mentioning the punishment imposed on goalkeeper Hugo Souza by the STJD. The executive recalled the player’s statements after the match against Palmeiras and criticized the lack of consistency in the application of sanctions, pointing to a disparity compared to other players who made remarks of a similar nature.

“I also want to reinforce, and this goes a little beyond refereeing, that Hugo, our goalkeeper, was punished for giving an interview, for something he said. He got the first two matches, then it was reduced. And other players from other teams made statements even more blatant than Hugo’s and the court immediately acquitted them. So we have to raise this question. We are part of the same competition, the criteria have to be the same.”

“Unfortunately, we have been feeling harmed. We will not stop speaking out, we will do so politely, properly, with courtesy, but firmly, making our dissatisfaction clear. First, because of several mistakes, in our view, in today’s game. All of them going in their favor. When it was a Mirassol play, it was reviewed. When it was in our favor, it was not reviewed. And the play on the second goal, which is indisputable. And also to leave this reminder about the court, because Hugo was punished and other players were not. So we need to have the same standard of consistency for the good of Brazilian football. This is our statement, this is what we have to say. Tomorrow there is the refereeing meeting. Corinthians will take part, as always. We will be on a flight to Colombia at the time. But we will appoint someone to represent us, to make the necessary statement and seek explanations for what we see as refereeing mistakes today,” Marcelo Paz concluded.

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