VAR audio correcting Diego Hernandez’s yellow card in the Fortaleza x Botafogo match shows that the referee did not even commit a foul: ‘Ball by ball’

It is even difficult to try to decipher what is going on in the plane cabin Video Assistant Referee. a Brazilian Football Confederation He published a video of the yellow card correction shown by the referee Wilton Pereira Sampaio In the second half of power 1×1 Botafogo. The referee had initially shown a yellow card to Damian Suarez, but was corrected and gave a yellow card to Damian Suarez. Diego Hernandez.

However, in VAR dialogues, referee Wilton Pereira Sampaio immediately said that there was no foul. However, after Diego Hernandez threw the ball in fair play, to Felipe Jonathan, he applied the card. The match was resumed by dropping the ball.

– Ball to ball. He’s got the cinnamon with the cinnamon, but he still has the advantage. Number 2 [não havia jogador com a 2 do Botafogo em campo, o dono da camisa é Rafael, lesionado] He stops the ball, for me there was no mistake – says Wilton Sampaio.

– Card for me, okay? – says a voice in the dialogue, and it cannot be determined whether it belongs to the linesman, the fourth official or someone in the VAR booth.

In the match summary, Wilton Sampaio justified the yellow card for Diego Hernandez: “Because of his reckless interference with his opponent while fighting for the ball“. The question remains: If he did not commit a mistake and resumed the ball with a drop, then why the yellow card?