Surreal VAR procedure in Sao Paulo – Boca Juniors: “You move, I’ll let you know”

Seeing is believing what happened at the game South American Cup who faced Sao Paulo and Boca Juniors and that ended with a tie at one on the scoreboard, but with an overall result for the Argentine team (1-2).

However, the meeting was not without controversy. It was the 69th minute of the game when the Sao Paulo managed to tie the match with more than twenty minutes left to try to equalize the tie, although in the end the goal did not end up on the scoreboard due to a more than doubtful offside.

And the procedure of VAR to invalidate the goal was not entirely mathematical. The performance of the match captured how the match referees drew the lines to find out if the position of Ryan Francisco was correct. “You move, I’ll let you know,” were the words of one of the referees in the VAR room, which have caused great indignation among São Paulo fans.

A very controversial and subjective procedure that reveals the work that remains to finish implementing the technology in this type of situations.