🎥 CTA sides with Rayo Vallecano... and not Madrid | OneFootball

'Review Time', the CTA video that analyzes some of the most controversial plays of the matchday in the First and Second Divisions, focused this week on Rayo Vallecano-Real Sociedad and Real Betis-Real Madrid, among other matches.

In the first of those, it sided with Rayo’s complaints about the penalty on Carlos Martín. They say Turrientes’ challenge was a "clear and persistent" hold, that the on-field referee’s decision was wrong, and that VAR "should have intervened because it was a clear, obvious and manifest error". 

In the same match, Pulido Santana alerted Guzmán Mansilla from the VAR room, leading him to disallow Rayo’s goal after a five-minute review.

The CTA explains that "when the contact is the result of the natural planting of the foot after a previous action on the ball, the threshold for recklessness is left to the referee’s interpretation. For the CTA, since it was not a clear, obvious and manifest error, VAR should not have intervened and should have respected the on-field referee’s decision". 

The CTA disagrees with Real Madrid

In the move that ended with Bellerín’s equalizer, Madrid wanted the goal ruled out for a prior foul by Antony on Mendy. 

The video explains that for a holding offense to be punishable, "there must be a clear hold with a direct cause-and-effect relationship between the attacker’s action and its effect on the defender. Light contact falls within the referee’s interpretation.”

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