The referee, Serbian Srdjan Jovanovic, will not have the techonology goal-line available due to a technical problem.
This is what will happen at 9 pm at the Da Luz Stadium in Lisbon where Benfica and Juventus will face off.
This was announced by Uefa with a note, a few hours before the start of the match of group H of the Champions League.
"The home club, unbeknownst to UEFA, has commissioned work on the stadium that made the goal-lin
e technological system dysfunctional.
Unfortunately
- the European football organization says -
it will not be possible to replace and install a new one. system in time for the match, and therefore the match will be played without the use of goal-line technology, as required by the UEFA Champions League regulations. "
The referee, however, can count on the Var in the event of a ghost goal using the goal-line camera, a camera aligned with the goal line.
In this case, the analysis of the goal or missed goal is carried out as if it were an offside.