{"id":292902,"date":"2023-10-03T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T10:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=292902"},"modified":"2023-10-03T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T10:25:11","slug":"rafa-benitez-slams-absurd-var-decision-in-celta-vigos-latest-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/rafa-benitez-slams-absurd-var-decision-in-celta-vigos-latest-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafa Benitez slams &apos;absurd&apos; VAR decision in Celta Vigo&apos;s latest defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rafa Benitez slams &#8216;absurd&#8217; VAR decision in a post-match rant&#8230; after his Celta Vigo side saw a goal controversially disallowed before suffering defeat to Las Palmas<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rafa Benitez saw his Celta Vigo side suffer their fifth defeat in La Liga this season<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The\u00a0Celta Vigo boss was angered by a controversial VAR decision in the first-half\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Click HERE to listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Liverpool manager\u00a0Rafa Benitez has slammed the use of VAR after seeing his Celta Vigo side controversially denied a goal before suffering a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Las Palmas.<\/p>\n<p>Celta were denied a 36th minute opener in the match after\u00a0Jorgen Strand Larsen had rounded\u00a0Las Palmas goalkeeper Alvaro Valles to put his side 1-0 up.<\/p>\n<p>A VAR review led to the strike being ruled out by the referee, with\u00a0Anastasios Douvakis having been adjudged to have pulled the shirt of\u00a0Mika Marmol in the build-up.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken despite\u00a0Marmol also appearing to be holding\u00a0Douvakis&#8217;s shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Douvakis would ultimately give Celta a second half lead in the match, but an\u00a084th minute penalty by Jonathan Vieira and a stoppage time goal from Marc Cardona earned Las Palmas a 2-1 win at home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/10\/76104169-12587785-image-a-30_1696324423550.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Celta Vigo saw a goal ruled out after\u00a0Anastasios Douvakis was penalised for shirt pulling<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/10\/76104167-12587785-image-a-31_1696324428221.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Douvakis was ruled to have fouled Mika Marmol, No 15, despite both players shirt pulling<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/10\/76104251-12587785-Celta_Vigo_boss_Rafa_Benitez_hit_out_at_the_decision_during_a_po-a-33_1696324564614.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Celta Vigo boss Rafa Benitez hit out at the decision during a post-match interview<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Benitez launched into a post-match rant about the first half decision to rule out\u00a0Larsen&#8217;s opener, which he claimed had impacted his team emotionally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s absurd, that in every game something has to happen to you and for a goal like that to be annulled,&#8217;\u00a0Benitez told DAZN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;On an emotional level it&#8217;s killing the team. You have the game under control and again what if a penalty, what if a ball, what if a foul.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;How are we not going to lose in the end if we score a legal goal and they take it away from you, in the end it is very complicated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t have to talk to the referee. It&#8217;s such an obvious thing that in football you can&#8217;t call those things because it doesn&#8217;t make sense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The VAR enters, who will be in a room calmly saying &#8220;no, if he does like this, I don&#8217;t know what&#8221;. It just can&#8217;t be, this is football, we are not talking about ping-pong.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The decision was the third time in eight matches that\u00a0Benitez had seen his Celta side have a goal ruled out following a VAR review, including seeing an opening effort chalked off against Real Madrid last month.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/10\/76104147-12587785-image-a-34_1696324577179.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Benitez saw his Celta Vigo side fall into the bottom three in La Liga following their latest defeat<\/p>\n<p>Benitez has overseen just one win since being appointed as Celta boss in the summer, with a five loss of the season seeing the team drop into the bottom three in La Liga.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old&#8217;s comments on VAR come after a controversial weekend, which saw Liverpool wrongly having a goal ruled out in their 2-1 defeat to Tottenham in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Reds winger Luis Diaz had his strike disallowed for offside but VAR Darren England and assistant Dan Cook mistakenly thought the on-field decision was onside, so did not correct the blunder.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool have requested the audio from the VAR to be released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12587785\/Rafa-Benitez-slams-VAR-decision-Celta-Vigo-defeat-Las-Palmas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafa Benitez slams &#8216;absurd&#8217; 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