Both Real Madrid and Barcelona have rejected goals through the VAR over the years, but against which team are the most decisions made?
It is a scenario that we have seen time and again in recent years: the ball comes in. Let the players and the fans only celebrate that the referee can temper their mood by asking for a VAR assessment. Follow minutes of tension until … the referee signs the monitor sign to indicate that the goal has been rejected.
Laliga has been experiencing these situations for seven seasons, match day after match day, since the VAR arrived in the national competition in the 2018/19 season.
A scenario that Real Madrid has experienced a total of 32 times so far. Real Madrid is the team that has rejected the most goals by the VAR in the Spanish top class – more than the number of Barcelona (13) and far behind the following players on the list, Atlético, Celta and Sevilla, with 17 rejected respectively rejected Goals.
But that is not the most strange fact. Real Madrid is also the only team in history that has destroyed three goals in one match by the VAR: twice. The first, against Elche in 2022. The second, last Sunday in week 20 against Las Palmas.
Against Las Palmas, referee Alejandro Quintero rejected goals from Mbappé, Bellingham and Valverde. All because of offside.
The same happened on October 19, 2022 in the Martínez Valero, when referee Jesús Gil Manzano rejected 10 goals from Alaba and two by Benzema against Elche on match day.
Barcelona, the least affected by VAR decisions
Since the 2018/2019 season, Barcelona has rejected thirteen goals by the VAR. Although the real difference with Real Madrid becomes visible when we look at the number of goals that each team scores, one is rejected.
Madrid scores 15.2 goals for each rejected goal (485 goals since the 2018/2019 season and 32 rejected goals), while the statistics indicate that Barça must score 40.7 goals before one is rejected (529 of the 13 rejected).
The Catalans have ten goals in second place, Villarreal, which had to score 33.06 goals before one was rejected (529 of the 16 rejected). Atletico Madrid is third, with 23.1 goals for each goal that does not come on the scoreboard (17 goals rejected for 393 goals scored).
In a positive or negative sense, the VAR has been controversy in the football world since 2018 because of the criteria she uses to intervene. Because what is 'canceled' by the technology is not always 'correctly canceled' for everyone.
There are still many gray areas that need to be solved. There is only one certainty: Real Madrid is the team in Laliga that has rejected the most goals by technology.
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