Penalty against Benfica? Pundits unanimous in their verdict on the incident | OneFootball

Marco Ferreira and Jorge Faustino had no doubts about the possible penalty for Benfica, in the match against Tondela, in a play with Obrador: the referee of the match was correct in reversing the decision, since the foul was clearly committed outside the penalty area, which, in the last match, was guarded by Samuel Soares.

"Obrador kicked Yarlen, knocking him down, as he entered a promising situation in the Benfica area. The VAR did well to clarify that the contact was outside the area and therefore no penalty", explained Jorge Faustino, specialist of Record Newspaper in refereeing cases.

Marco Ferreira, the other commentator of the Portuguese newspaper, agreed in the analysis: "Obrador arrives late to the ball and trips the opponent, still outside the area, recklessly. Referee signals penalty but reverses the decision after good intervention from VAR".

The commentators, who gave a score of 3 to the referee of the match, also commented on a play at the end of the game: "Tiago Manso had a very negligent entry when he hit Aktürkoglu's foot with the sole of the ball. In a play where he could have applied advantage, he chose to interrupt to immediately show the yellow card".

Marco Ferreira again agreed with Jorge Faustino regarding this play, at the 84th minute, where Kerem Akturkoglu suffered a hard foul: "Manso arrives late to the ball and steps on the opponent's foot negligently causing some danger. Free kick and yellow card well shown".

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