The Spanish league has given us a Christmas tree in Barcelona vs Osasuna - refereeing controversy - Matchday 17.

Hello!!!
My name is Jose and I want to make it clear that I am a Barça fan (a very big one).

This was the starting line-up for both teams.

And these are the referees responsible:

Now...
I'm happy that Barcelona won after a very close match with Osasuna practically locked in their own half, but today we saw Lamine and Rashford gradually becoming more decisive, especially the Englishman, who is starting to make better decisions. The first half was a bit weak, but in the second half the team gave their best.

So what's the problem?

The real controversy lies in the Spanish league and the way in which it repeatedly manipulates the VAR and SAOT (semi-automatic offside) tools. We have already seen on numerous occasions how they minimise incidents and draw lines inappropriately, and today they have drawn a line for offside that really makes no sense whatsoever.

I am referring to this one:

In this image, we can see how the line used to indicate an offside prior to Ferran's goal makes no sense.
Why does this line not make sense? It's simple: the shot is tilted to the right, and for offside calls we must always use the field lines as a reference (that's what they're there for), and if these are not visible, we have the Kal line in the background, which clearly indicates that the shot is diagonal and that the offside call must be made using a diagonal line parallel to the Kal line (which even I have done at home with Paint).

If you take the offside as the red line, you can see that the Osasuna player is in a similar position to Barcelona's number 11. This means that you would have to open the image and take other angles to really check whether Rafael is offside, which you don't even have to do manually because there is a semi-automatic system, and if the semi-automatic system doesn't flag it, it is the linesman's duty to raise the offside flag.

I'll just say that it smells fishy, as always...

What do you think? I'll read your comments.

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