FC Porto slam referee after B team defeat: “Bizarre penalties” | OneFootball

FC Porto criticized, this Sunday, the performance of referee Vítor Ferreira, following yet another defeat of the B team in the II Liga, this time against Torreense (2-3), in a match of the 7th round. The blue and whites described the intervention of the judge from the Braga Football Association as “an unqualifiable display” and are awaiting the opinion of the Refereeing Council.

The club’s complaints focus on several decisive moments of the match, with the Dragons’ officials considering the two penalties awarded to the visitors as “bizarre” and claiming that another penalty should have been given in the opposite direction.

“Referee Vítor Ferreira continues to show why he was ranked last in the standings two seasons ago and why relegation to the second category is still insufficient given his lack of competence to officiate any match in a professional league,” reads the match report published on FC Porto’s official website, which continues with harsh criticism.

“This Sunday morning, at Olival, the AF Braga referee awarded two bizarre penalties to Torreense, denied another to FC Porto B, and turned a 2-0 lead into a 2-3 defeat (…) Torreense made three changes at halftime, but the real trump card did not come from Torres Vedras – it came from Barcelos. Following an innocuous play between Gabriel Brás and André Simões, the Barcelos referee immediately pointed to the penalty spot and Manuel Pozo took advantage of the gift to reduce the deficit (2-1),” the blue and whites emphasize, before aiming more barbs at the referee.

“Four minutes after the visitors leveled the score (2-2), Vítor Ferreira found an infraction by Diogo Fernandes on Seydi and awarded yet another penalty to Torreense, who did not waste the opportunity to turn the game around (2-3). Already in stoppage time, a visiting defender handled the ball inside the area and the referee let play continue. Again called by VAR, Vítor Ferreira chose to ignore the images shown to him and refused to award the deserved penalty. All that remains now is to await the grade that the Refereeing Council will give to this unqualifiable display by Vítor Ferreira,” FC Porto concludes.

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