• Crónica Correa uncorks Atlético in the heat of Balaídos

Apparently, a day before the League started (on Thursday), the Technical Referees Committee cleared a major issue that has been causing headaches for too long: hands in the area.

Apparently, nothing better than the detailed explanation of one (or several) referees to understand that, when the ball hits the arm of a player, there will be no valid doubts.

Apparently, the debates should have been settled because, also apparently, the rule seems quite clear: "Involuntary hands will only be punishable if a goal is scored directly and immediately." But it just seems like it ...

In Balaídos, on the way to game time, Marcos Llorente was hit by the ball in the chest, while

Iago Aspas

squeezed him in the area with his leg raised to the limit of dangerous play. And the ball bounced from the chest to the arm. The event, as had happened a day before in Mendizorroza, in an action by

Lucas Vázquez

in the Real Madrid area, seemed involuntary. However,

Munuera Montero

, warned by the VOR room, reviewed the action and ended up punishing the matter with a penalty. Practice had blown up much of the theory put forward on Thursday. And on the grass, of course, the general confusion.

Because

Koke

, the rojiblanco captain, had to stop

Llorente

, who was taken by the demons when he saw that the referee went to the VAR screen to consult the aforementioned hand.

For Marcos there was nothing to consult.

However, as is already known, it led to the first controversial penalty of the season.

Nobody understood anything, not even Aspas, direct witness of the play and executor from 11 meters.

"It is not clear to me about the hands. I thought it had not been a penalty. Marcos told me no and I trusted him until the referee said otherwise," explained the celestial captain, who would end up in the middle of the final fight with the that the game was closed.

"They are decisions of the referee"

Diego Pablo Simeone

, who remained firm with his black clothing fetish despite the temperatures, was also upset by the decision.

"The other day we were meeting with the referees and it is very difficult to understand what is hand and what is not. I still believe that the VAR is very good and that the referees seek to decide between what they see the best," said the coach Argentine, relieved by the victory.

Meanwhile,

Ángel Correa

, the silent double-scorer, tried to simplify a matter that is not simple at all.

An issue that can mark the destiny of the season.

"They are decisions made by the referee with the help of the VAR. We only worry about trying to do our best and win," settled the striker, at the top of the scorers' table.

It is only the first day.

The indecipherable soap opera of the hands in the area has only just begun.

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