Penalty in Bodø/Glimt v Sporting: Pedro Henriques disagrees | OneFootball

Pedro Henriques analyzed the most important moments of the Bodø/Glimt - Sporting (3-0) match, making it clear that the penalty that put the Norwegians ahead in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 was wrongly awarded.

"29’ UEFA wants, in contact situations, ball disputes, challenges for position, to let the game flow, considering the challenges within the spirit of the game when these contacts are lateral, close, where no one has the ball dominated or controlled. In this specific case, both players stretch their legs to try to play the ball, Sondre Fet with his left foot and Georgios Vagiannidis with his right foot, with the ball within reach of both", he begins by saying, to the newspaper A Bola.

"The contact existed, but there was no push, no extended arm, and the contact at the hip level is a result of both players' movement in projecting their legs forward and towards the ball. As for UEFA's VAR, once again its intervention must be very clear and obvious, and with a contact situation, which existed, where probably the analysis would always be made at the level of intensity, cause, and consequence, and the protocol would never allow intervention to reverse it, since the images would always show the contact that occurred, hence the validation by the VAR, probably not because it agrees completely with the decision, but mainly because it cannot prove the contrary, not a penalty, in an absolute and unequivocal way. I do not agree with the maximum penalty that was awarded", stated Pedro Henriques.

With this defeat – the sixth in 42 matches this season – Rui Borges's team is at a disadvantage for the second leg of the prestigious competition and now must win by three goals to tie the aggregate, or win by more than that number at Alvalade to advance to the quarter-finals.

The green and white team will return to the field next Tuesday, March 17, again against Bodø/Glimt. The match, counting for the second leg of this round of the Champions League, against the Norwegian team, will be played at 17:45 at the José Alvalade Stadium.

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