Experts slam Suárez’s “dive” call in Alverca v Sporting: arrogant decision | OneFootball

At 48 minutes into the Alverca - Sporting match, which ended in a 4-1 victory for the lions, Luis Suárez fell in the area during a play with André Gomes and the referee awarded a penalty. The Colombian forward immediately told João Pinheiro that he had not been fouled, and what happened next is causing great surprise.

Immediately afterward, the match referee consulted the video footage to review the play and ended up canceling the penalty. As a result, he showed a yellow card for simulation to the Sporting player, who reacted with disbelief, after he had already admitted there was no reason for a penalty.

In statements to the newspaper Record, Jorge Faustino expressed his lack of understanding of João Pinheiro's decision: Suárez ended up losing balance on his own while avoiding the goalkeeper (no simulation: wrong on the yellow card). "Penalty well reversed," he says, adding that it was a "situation where sensitivity was lacking when Suárez had an act of fair play."

Meanwhile, Marco Ferreira also sees no criteria in the referee's admonition: "Penalty well reversed after VAR intervention and yellow card wrongly shown to Suárez," he asserts, also mentioning that this was a "arrogant decision without sense."

This season, wearing the Sporting jersey, Luis Suárez – valued at 28 million euros – has played 42 matches: 25 in the Liga Portugal Betclic, ten in the Champions League, five in the Portuguese Cup, one in the League Cup, and another in the Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup. In the 3,403 minutes he was on the field, the striker scored 33 goals and made five assists.

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