Porto slam referee: “Demotion not enough for incompetence” | OneFootball

“Unqualifiable performance”: this is how FC Porto describes the performance of referee Vítor Ferreira, the official of the FC Porto-Torreense match played this Sunday, corresponding to the 7th round of the 2nd League (2-3). In a statement published on their official website titled “A refereeing for the history books,” the Dragons do not hold back in their criticism of the referee.

“Referee Vítor Ferreira continues to show why he was ranked last two seasons ago and why his demotion to the second category is still insufficient given his lack of competence to officiate any match in a professional league. This Sunday morning, at Olival, the AF Braga official awarded two bizarre penalties in favor of Torreense, denied another to FC Porto B, and turned a 2-0 lead into a 2-3 defeat,” it reads. FC Porto – who tonight host Benfica for the Liga Betclic – now say they are “awaiting the grade 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 ranked last two seasons ago and why his demotion to the second category is still insufficient given his lack of competence to officiate any match in a professional league. This Sunday morning, at Olival, the AF Braga official awarded two bizarre penalties in favor of Torreense, denied another to FC Porto B, and turned a 2-0 lead into a 2-3 defeat.

Gonçalo Sousa opened the scoring with an acrobatic shot in the 12th minute (1-0) and, right before halftime, suffered a very harsh tackle inside the visitors’ box. Faced with Vítor Ferreira’s passivity, VAR was forced to intervene to award the corresponding penalty, which Kauê Rodrigues converted (2-0).

Torreense made three changes at halftime, but the real trump card didn’t come from Torres Vedras – it came from Barcelos. Following an innocuous play between Gabriel Brás and André Simões, the referee from Barcelos immediately pointed to the penalty spot and Manuel Pozo took advantage to reduce the deficit (2-1).

Four minutes after the visitors equalized (2-2), Vítor Ferreira spotted an infraction by Diogo Fernandes on Seydi and awarded yet another penalty to Torreense, who didn’t waste the opportunity to turn the score around (2-3).

Already in stoppage time, a visiting defender handled the ball inside the box and the referee once again let play continue. Once again called by VAR, Vítor Ferreira chose to ignore the images shown to him and refused to award the rightful penalty. Now, all that remains is to await the grade that the Refereeing Council will give to this unqualifiable performance by Vítor Ferreira.”

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