Marcelo Sant’Anna speaks out about Vanderlan’s controversial handball in the box and warns the club will officially lodge a complaint with the CBF
Vasco lost 1-0 to Palmeiras in the 27th round of the Brazilian championship. However, a controversial move caught the eye in the final phase. Striker Emerson Rodríguez attempted to cross and the ball touched Vanderlan’s hand. After consulting the VAR, referee Rafael Rodrigo Klein did not award a penalty, which sparked the indignation of the Rio club’s sporting director, Marcelo Sant’Anna.
“Vasco once again takes a stand on the lack of refereeing criteria in the Brazilian Serie A. There, around the 20th minute of the second half, there is a movement in which the referee signals the hand of the Palmeiras athlete, signals with conviction See that the move was in Vasco’s possession and he established that it was a hand and then at the moment in which he is raising the barrier, so he probably could have controlled the position of the ball, because the hand would not have been outside the area, the hand would have been inside the area Then what happens, fact number 1, it was a hand”, he said.
Criticisms of the arbitration decision
According to the coach, the refereeing has no criteria, since there was a change in the referee’s decision after consulting the VAR. He also specified that the club will officially file a complaint with the CBF in the meetings regarding the refereeing of the Brazilian Championship.
“The referee confirms that it was a hand. At the current moment of the match, where he determines the foul, when he goes to the VAR he determines that it was a hand. The image is clear, it shows that the hand is inside the And then to change the penalty he decides to change the interpretative criteria. And he says that the hand becomes a natural movement”, criticized Sant’Anna.
“So if he had doubts at the beginning, he didn’t need to commit the foul. He could have let the game continue, when the game stopped, he could have appealed to the VAR. So, we ask ourselves here, once again, the criteria that have guided refereeing in the Brazilian Serie A. In order not to address subjective issues, when there is a foul, this is followed by an offside call, when the game is stopped,” he said.
“We are talking about an objective situation. The VAR calls the referee because the gesture was inside the area, the referee confirms that he had the touch on his hand, confirms that it was inside the area and decides to change the interpretation so as not to give a penalty to Vasco da Gama,” he concluded.
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After the result Cruz-Maltino stopped at 35 points and dropped to 10th place. So, in the next round, coach Rafael Paiva’s men will visit Cruzeiro, in Mineirão, on the 29th (Sunday), at 18:30 (Brasilia time).
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