Lamine Yamal’s ‘ghost goal’ in the classic real Madrid – FC Barcelona held this Sunday at the Santiago Bernabéu has gone around the world. It was the biggest controversy of a match that left the league completely settled in favor of the meringues (3-2), an action that generated a lot of confusion on the field and that can bring a tail if the culés finally request a replay of the match.
The sequence, which lasted just seconds, began with the forced shot of the young culé and the quick hand of Andriy Lunin. From there, total confusion in an area where The congratulations to the goalkeeper were mixed with the protests of the Blaugranasas the Movistar+ program ‘The Day After’ has been able to reveal with its exclusive images.
The first to jump like a spring was Lamine himself, author of the ‘ghost goal’, who runs towards César Soto Grado with his hand raised, halfway celebrating the goal. However, The referee does not speak with Lamine, but with Lewandowskito whom he tries to explain that goal line technology does not exist in Spain.
“I’m waiting, there is no goal technology, there is only VAR”, he comments to a Lewandowski who is not convinced with the explanation. Gündogan also insists, but Soto Grado can do nothing but wait for the instructions from the VOR room.
“We are doing a 360º to find the shot because we don’t have it. Lunin’s body is covering us, for a second… we are still looking for the evidence,” the referee hears while asking for calm from those who see what he cannot see in every throw of the game. “We are in no hurry, it is a very important decision, we review all the cameras”says César Soto Grado to his assistants.
At the same time he tries to sow calm on the grass, but it is difficult against a Lamine Yamal who insisted with his “referee was in” while pointing at the clock again. Koundé sowed more calm in his words to Lamine: “calm down, it’s a sure goal”.
“He was inside, he doesn’t have a clock… How can they not have a fucking clock,” says the young Blaugrana youth player to an expectant Vinícius while the whistles from the stands turned the Santiago Bernabéu into a cauldron.
“Why does it take so long?”says a Modric tired of waiting before the instruction from the VOR room that closed the case: “César, we are going to resume with a corner kick, we have no evidence that the ball has gone in. Resume with a corner kick, we have no “no evidence”, they say from above to the disappointment of the Blaugranas.
