😱What was Abqar thinking? Sent off for a forbidden pinch | OneFootball

The match between Atlético de Madrid and Getafe on matchday 28 of LALIGA left one of the most surreal sequences of the season. At the start of the second half, the visiting defender Abdel Abqar was sent off after a peculiar assault on the local forward Alexander Sorloth, in an action that went unnoticed by the human eye but not by technology.

The VAR detected the forbidden "pinch"

While attention was focused on another part of the field, the VAR alerted referee Ortiz Arias about an incident on the halfway line. After reviewing the footage, it was confirmed that Abqar gave a pinch to the Norwegian attacker's private parts without the ball in play. Sorloth reacted by knocking down the defender, which earned him a yellow card for protesting, but the greater punishment was for the Moroccan.

Consequences for Getafe

Ortiz Arias's decision to show a straight red left the "azulón" team with ten men at a critical moment in the match. This unusual aggression, finally captured by television cameras, adds to the controversies of a matchday marked by tension and rough play.

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