VAR advised Abatti Abel to review Tapia penalty, claims website | OneFootball

And more evidence is emerging about the terrible performance of the refereeing in the classic match between São Paulo and Palmeiras last Sunday (5), at Morumbi, for the Brazilian Championship. And believe it, information revealed by the portal 'Goal' may exonerate VAR Ilbert Estevam da Silva.

According to the site's revelation, one of the most controversial plays that caused the most outrage among the tricolors, Allan's penalty on Tapia at the beginning of the second half, ignored by field referee Ramon Abatti Abel, would indeed have had Silva's guidance for the play to be reviewed on the monitor.

At least that's what São Paulo's football executive Rui Costa would have told the rest of the club's directors, after hearing last Monday (6), in a meeting with the CBF's Refereeing Commission, the expected audios of the conversations between the two referees in the Choque-Rei.

According to 'Goal', in the discussion between the referees, according to what Rui Costa passed on to the São Paulo board, the person responsible for VAR suggested that Abatti Abel go to the video equipment to check a possible penalty for São Paulo.

The match referee, however, chose to maintain the field decision, claiming that Palmeiras' defender, Allan, had slipped on the pitch.

The information that Abatti Abel saw not only Allan "slipping", but also justified that Tapia would not reach the ball, had already been anticipated by AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR.

According to 'Goal' still, there would not have been a great insistence on Silva's part for Abatti to review the play, respecting his decision on the field.

Either way, Ilbert Silva saw his name gain (negative) prominence and was summoned to appear at the Chamber of Deputies to testify about the facts that occurred in the game.

TOTAL PRESSURE FROM TRICOLOR FOR TRANSPARENCY

The CBF seems to have changed its mind and, in the name of transparency and fairness, will try to meet São Paulo's request to make public the VAR audios of the five controversial plays of the classic against Palmeiras last Sunday (5), at Morumbi, for the Brazilian Championship.

Information from Tuesday afternoon (7), obtained by AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR, reports that the highest entity of Brazilian football will ask Fifa for authorization to release and disclose these audios.

According to what the CBF informed the Morumbi club, this authorization is necessary, as the VAR did not recommend the review of the field referee's decision.

The response comes after São Paulo officially asked the entity this morning to release the VAR audios on the five controversial plays it complained about.

And, most importantly, the change in CBF's stance comes after football executive Rui Costa listened to the audios along with the top of the Refereeing Commission last Monday (6).

Costa was the board's chosen one to participate in the meeting with Rodrigo Cintra, president of the CBF's National Refereeing Commission, and VAR's technical manager, Péricles Bassols. The main objective was to elucidate to the tricolor director the controversial decisions of referee Ramon Abatti Abel and the person responsible for video surveillance, Ilbert Estevam da Silva, in the classic against Palmeiras last Sunday (5), at Morumbi, for the Brazilian Championship.

The meeting took place after the highest entity of football agreed with São Paulo's complaints and announced the indefinite removal of the two referees. The goal was to show Costa the audios of Abel's conversation with Silva in five key plays pointed out by Tricolor, which cannot be made public due to the VAR protocol (only reviewed decisions are disclosed), even with the request from president Julio Casares to make an exception due to the seriousness of what happened.

At this point, Tricolor's outcry can indeed be seen as exaggerated, as Palmeiras claims, since even the audios that are not published by CBF end up being made available to clubs through a private forum on the internet, as a way to elucidate the referees' decisions and provide more transparency.

Even so, Rui Costa spent about an hour in a virtual meeting with those responsible for Brazilian football referees and learned, in addition to Abel's decisions with VAR through conversations, Cintra and Bassols' response and evaluations.

In two of the plays complained about by São Paulo, the justifications for not marking them are known.

In the most scandalous mistake, the non-marking of a clear penalty on Gonzalo Tapia, when the São Paulo team was already winning the game 2-0, at the beginning of the second half, the conversation between Abel and Silva concluded that the Chilean striker was far away, would not reach the ball and that, in addition, Palmeiras' Allan slips accidentally, which is why he hits the tricolor.

About the high kick from Andreas Pereira on Marcos Antônio, moments later, deserving of a red card, the claim is that the Palmeiras player gets the ball first.

As AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR found out, what most outraged São Paulo's directors was the fact that in none of the two most crucial plays of the five complained about there is Silva's recommendation for Abel to review the plays. Worse than that, the field referee showed no certainty of his decisions in any of the plays and purely trusted his colleague on video, with no effort to review or revisit what happened.

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