Villarreal coach Marcelino criticizes Getafe penalty decision: If VAR decides your fate, it's not so reliable - Carlos Volcano

Villarreal managed to take the lead in the 44th minute thanks to a goal from Santi Comesana, but Getafe quickly equalized with a penalty won by Bertug Yildirim and expertly converted by Mauro Arambarri.

Marcelino was left convinced VAR ref Jorge Figueroa Vazquez intervened for the penalty due to ego.

Penalty:

"The referee had been whistling very well. He is next to the play, the ball goes somewhere else and a referee arrives at the VAR who is down. How many of these penalties can be called in a match? But the VAR man arrives and calls him and tells him it is a penalty."

Figueroa Vázquez:  

"If you are relegated it is because you are not very good."

Impact of VAR:

"He calls the referee, just for the sake of attention, and lets the referee blow the whistle. I am convinced that if instead of a young referee it had been a more experienced referee, he would not have called him."

Referee Victor García Verdura's decision: 

"I find it ridiculous, but anyway, the referee acted out of corporatism, which is what we usually see, and the VAR referee was the protagonist of something that did not happen, but which he wanted to happen."

Result:

"The point is fine, but you missed two. But the way it happened makes you upset."