🔌 VAR outage in Rayo-Barça down to stadium fault | OneFootball

The VAR did not work during the Rayo Vallecano-Barcelona match for a few minutes, and the cause is now known.

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The controversy of the week in Spanish football occurred in the Rayo-Barcelona match, where Lamine Yamal was brought down by Pep Chavarría, leading to the 0-1 for the Blaugranas.

The referee, Mateo Busquets Ferrer, called a penalty on Yamal and could not review it on VAR. A few days later, the reason is now known.

'Mediapro', the group responsible for the operation of VAR, explained this Thursday that the problem was with the power supply assigned to their mobile unit at the Vallecas stadium.

Was it the mobile unit's fault? 'Mediapro' explains no: "The involved Mobile Unit has undergone a thorough analysis and stress tests without any incidents occurring. GRUPO MEDIAPRO has submitted the results of their investigation to the RFEF".

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