Barcelona players left the Metropolitano with two images in their minds. One was the 4-0 scoreline on the stadium scoreboard. The other was the image of Cubarsi’s disallowed goal at the start of the second half. Frenkie de Jong, in the mixed zone, still could not believe the situation, those seven minutes that led to his teammate’s infringement.
“When this happens (the play) I hadn’t been able to see the video yet, so it was hard for me to comment. I think it’s too long because it’s not that hard to see, I guess, they said something about the system being broken, but then I saw a picture where you can clearly see that it’s not offside,” the Dutch midfielder told Sporty TV.
The dressing room saw the image as soon as the match was over
De Jong, perhaps not yet aware that what is sanctioned from the VOR room is Lewandowski’s touch prior to Cubarsi’s goal, added: “And then, on television, in the image they show of the offside, you don’t see the contact with the ball when he shoots, and then there is an image where you see that Fermin shoots and the defender is a meter behind Robert”.
If what is whistled is the image I saw and if it is not AI or something like that, because you never know nowadays… but if that is the photo, then it is a scandal, because it is very clear
What De Jong made clear is that, as soon as the match was over, the players rushed to see that image of the offside that they had not been able to see live. “If what is called is the image I saw and if it is not AI or something like that, because you never know nowadays… but if that is the photo, then it is a scandal, because it is very clear,” he claimed.
The keys to the shipwreck
The Dutchman also spoke about his side’s poor performance and the 4-0 defeat: “It was a very poor first half for us, where we didn’t do things right, we lost the ball in areas where it is dangerous and they also did well on the counter-attack and we should have done better.”
“I don’t think we were nervous. The problem was that we simply didn’t measure up in certain aspects, especially when we lost the ball in very dangerous areas and the rest of the defense was not as expected. And then, against Atletico, with a lot of quality in the attacking players, it was a difficult game,” he said.
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