VAR overturns San Lorenzo penalty in derby against Huracán | OneFootball

Nervo had knocked down Reali in the area. However, the action was invalidated by the VAR due to a previous offside. Take a look.

The hearts of the Huracán fans stopped at six minutes into the second half. That's because as soon as the second half started, Reali sped into the area and was clearly knocked down by Nervo. However, when San Lorenzo were preparing to execute the maximum penalty, the sanction ended up being annulled by the VAR.

Why? It turns out that at the start of the play that ended in the penalty, Cerutti headed the ball down in the middle of the field while in an offside position. To be exact, his left ankle was ahead of Ibáñez, so the referee was called by the VAR and, in the end, ended up announcing the annulment of the penalty.

There was no need for Ramírez to go and see the play on the monitor as it is a factual play, so once Paletta verified that Cerutti was indeed offside, he notified the referee to retract his decision.

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