Porto slam referee: demotion not enough for incompetence | OneFootball

"Inexcusable performance": this is how FC Porto describes the performance of referee Vítor Ferreira, the judge of the FC Porto-Torrense match played this Sunday, for the 7th round of the 2nd League (2-3). In a note published on their official website titled "A refereeing for history", the dragons do not hold back in their criticism of the referee.

"Referee Vítor Ferreira continues to show why he was the last ranked in the ranking two seasons ago and why the demotion to the second category is still insufficient given the lack of competence to referee any match of a professional league. This Sunday morning, at Olival, the judge from AF Braga signaled two unusual penalties in favor of Torreense, denied another to FC Porto B and turned a 2-0 advantage into a 2-3 defeat", it can be read. FC Porto - which tonight hosts Benfica for the Betclic League - now says "waiting for the note that the Refereeing Council will give to the referee "who turned the result around in the second half".

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"Referee Vítor Ferreira continues to show why he was the last ranked in the ranking two seasons ago and why the demotion to the second category is still insufficient given the lack of competence to referee any match of a professional league. This Sunday morning, at Olival, the judge from AF Braga signaled two unusual penalties in favor of Torreense, denied another to FC Porto B and turned a 2-0 advantage into a 2-3 defeat.

Gonçalo Sousa opened the scoring with an acrobatic shot at 12 minutes (1-0) and, just before the break, suffered a very hard tackle inside the visitor's area. In the face of Vítor Ferreira's passivity, the VAR had to intervene to signal the respective maximum penalty, which Kauê Rodrigues took care of converting (2-0).

Torreense made three changes at halftime, but the big trump card did not come from Torres Vedras - it came from Barcelos. Following a harmless play between Gabriel Brás and André Simões, the judge from Barcelos immediately pointed to the penalty mark and Manuel Pozo took advantage of the gift to reduce the disadvantage (2-1).

Four minutes after the visitors restored equality (2-2), Vítor Ferreira found an infraction by Diogo Fernandes on Seydi and offered another penalty to Torreense, who did not miss the opportunity to turn the score around (2-3).

Already in stoppage time, a foreign defender cut the ball with his arm inside the area and the referee again let play continue. Again called by the VAR, Vítor Ferreira chose to ignore the images that were shown to him and refused to signal the due penalty. It remains to be seen what note the Refereeing Council will give to this inexcusable performance by Vítor Ferreira".

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.