AS reveals a surprise about the two penalties in Real Madrid-Villarreal match

Real Madrid lost to Villarreal with two goals to one, in a match that saw two penalties for both teams from a handball in just five minutes.

The first penalty kick was in favor of Real Madrid, in the 57th minute, when the video technology room asked the match referee to go to the screen to review a handball on Foyth in the area.

The referee confirmed that there was a handball and signaled a penalty kick in favor of Real Madrid. Shortly after, Alaba touched the ball with his hand in a fall in the area, and the referee awarded the penalty kick directly, without referring to the mouse.

“First of all, if I were the referee, I wouldn’t have awarded any of the two penalties,” says Iturralde Gonzalez, the former Spanish referee and current analyst for AS newspaper and Cadena Ser radio.

He added, “The first hand touch is easier to justify, because the guidelines of the Referees Technical Committee are that a penalty kick is awarded when the hand occupies an abnormal space.”

And he continued: “Fouith was fighting for the ball with Vinicius, and he put his hand on his arm, then the ball fell from the sky and hit his hand. For me it is not a penalty. The defender was in contention for the ball and his hand wasn’t very high. Was it over the shoulder? I don’t think so either. It’s a ball dispute, he wasn’t even looking at the ball. I wouldn’t have called it a penalty.”

As for the second penalty kick, he said: “It is not a penalty kick, because Alaba fell to the ground. When you fall to the ground, you put your hand however you put it. When he got up, the ball hit his hand. Where do you want me to put my hands? He didn’t stretch it… he slipped before the ball arrived.

In short, “the first has a justification while the second has no justification.”

Source: Ace