“We are clearly being robbed of a point due to a regulation error”: Felice Mazzu furious over VAR’s decision to cancel Sint-Truiden’s equalizer against Standard

Sy surprise, Felice Mazzu was angry against the refereeing and the VAR decision to invalidate Adriano Bertaccini’s equalizing goal at the end of the match. For the Canaries coach, it was not a phase subject to interpretation but rather a clear error and a poor application of the regulations. “The latter is clear, it is a second phase of play which began from the moment Epolo played the ball. Everyone will recognize that we were robbed by an error in regulation and not in judgment. The opposing goalkeeper tries to play the ball twice. After the match, the referee told me that he should have gone to see the VAR who called him on the penalty phase, and he didn’t do it. We are clearly being robbed of a point. »

For his part, Ivan Leko played it low during this phase. “I haven’t seen the images again, it’s complicated,” he said before moving on to VAR. “Let us look at what is being done in the Champions League and invest. VAR must be serious. » It remains to be seen whether Sint-Truiden will file a complaint as Genk did for the story of the penalty in Anderlecht last season which led to an appearance by the two clubs before the CBAS. “I’m not yet in that perspective,” assured Mazzu. I am simply saying that we must differentiate between the regulation and the interpretation. When we make a mistake in interpretation, we can recognize it and apologize afterwards. But here we are talking about regulations. A coach puts rules in his locker room and if they are not respected, it’s a mess (sic). Today, the more we advance with technological tools to help refereeing, the more errors there are.

For his part, the Trudonnaire scorer, Adriano Bertaccini, did not understand this decision. “It’s another action that starts when the goalkeeper plays the ball but that’s how it is in Belgium, everything is not necessarily clear. What also surprises me is that the linesman tells me that my goal is valid and that it is the main referee who believes the opposite. I’m complaining because we deserved to take at least one point. In addition, I will keep my yellow card received for being too provocative. It’s a bad evening.