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Why it took so long to disallow Pau Cubarsi’s goal for Barcelona vs Atletico

> ”Regarding the play that resulted in the disallowed goal for FC Barcelon , ​​in assessing the play, and following protocol, the VAR team analyzed it using the semi-automatic offside system SAOT. During this analysis, it was detected that the system generated a failure in the player modeling through the skeletons, upon detecting a situation with a high density of players.

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> “After attempting to have the system recalibrate the modeling, and after verifying that this was not possible, following the established procedure, the VAR team proceeded to manually draw offside lines to make the final and correct decision. For this reason, and exceptionally, the review process of the play took longer than usual and made it impossible to provide the replay to the television production, as the SAOT system could not be used.”

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