Frenkie de Jong has called the decision to rule out Pau Cubarsi’s goal for Barcelona against Atletico
“a scandal” and says the images show “there was no offside.”Cubarsi found the back of the net early in the second half and thought he’d made it 4-1 to Barcelona. However, after an eight-minute delay it was ruled out by VAR.
Here’s what De Jong’s had to say about the saga.
“I saw the image afterward and you can clearly see that there was no offside. In the image shown on television regarding the offside,
you can’t see the contact with the ball, and then you see the image where Fermín shoots and the defender is a meter behind Robert. I think it’s very strange,
“He (Martínez Munuera) can’t do much, because he’s also waiting. He doesn’t have the image or the video. But VAR does. The image I saw, if it’s not AI, which you don’t realize anymore… If this is the photo, it’s a scandal because it’s very clear.”
Barcelona were left furious by the decision and also at the lack of a red card for Giuliano Simeone who was guilty of two poor challenges on Alejandro Balde.
