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

FC Porto criticized the performance of referee Vítor Ferreira this Sunday, following another defeat of the B team in the II League, this time against Torreense (2-3), in the 7th round match. The blue and whites described the intervention of the judge from the Braga Football Association as "an indefensible performance" and are awaiting the opinion of the Arbitration 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 stating that another one should have been awarded in the opposite direction.

"Referee Vítor Ferreira continues to demonstrate why he was ranked last two seasons ago and why demotion to the second category is still insufficient given the lack of competence to officiate any match in a professional league," reads the match report published on FC Porto's official site, which continues with harsh criticism.

"This Sunday morning, at Olival, the AF Braga judge 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 (...) Torreense made three changes at halftime, but the big asset didn't come from Torres Vedras – it came from Barcelos. Following an innocuous play between Gabriel Brás and André Simões, the Barcelos judge immediately pointed to the penalty spot and Manuel Pozo took advantage of the gift to reduce the deficit (2-1)," emphasize the blue and whites, before delivering 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 another penalty to Torreense, who didn't waste the opportunity to turn the score around (2-3). Already in injury time, a visiting defender handled the ball inside the area and the referee let play continue. Once again called by the VAR, Vítor Ferreira chose to ignore the images shown to him and refused to award the deserved penalty. Now we await the grade the Arbitration Council will give to this indefensible performance by Vítor Ferreira," concludes FC Porto.

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