Carlos Tevez’s move is one of those situations to which referees are exposed to doubting their integrity as impartial on a court. It was clear the iron that gave Tomás Pochettino as well ripped off the match and he must have seen the red one, but Germán Delfino leaned towards the yellow one and the controversy broke out. Fortunately for the referee, the sanction did not finish conditioning development and Talleres took a valuable triumph from La Bombonera to cut off the undefeated streak of “xeneize”. However, he was not exempt from criticism and doubt about his arbitration. For this very reason, the schoolboy himself decided to go out and face it and did it live and in a television studio.
At ESPN, Delfino analyzed the play and referred to everything he lived in these hours, ensuring that it was best to be present there to finish and justified the yellow one’s decision as he could not see Tevez’s impact with the sole because it was covered. Despite that, he acknowledged his mistake.” It was clearly for Tevez’s expulsion, I didn’t see the iron as I had to see it. I have considerations for it to be red. It happened to me that I was on the left side and my vision left with that touch of the ball, and I see like an instep of Carlos on his side. Then I saw that she apologized, the one from Talleres on the floor in pain and I didn’t see her as she had to see her,” she said.
“My responsibility as an arbitrator is to see her. This is where he got away. I would have liked to have VAR because there was no doubt there. If the attendees had seen it, they’re the first ones to tell me it was with the iron. We didn’t see it, it’s a split second and I didn’t see it was with the plugs,” he said. In view of this, it defended the arrival of the VAR, arranged for February 2021 and ensures that it will bring transparency and clarity in the arbitrator. Despite doubts in the world about technology in arbitration, in this case it would have been decisive in Tevez’s future with Workshops.
