After the 37th round of Laliga this season, the most important decision at the top of the table is already clear. Blaugrana was the master, who three queues approached the title three queues, defeating Real Madrid 4: 3 at home, and then sealed the triumph thanks to the derby victory of 2: 1 with Espanyol. The last defeat from 2: 3 with Villarreal can no longer change anything. Barcelona accumulated 85 points: 4 more than the second Real. Winning the royal in the last match of the season with Real Sociedad will not improve their position in the final ranking.
VAR distorted the fight for the championship? Unusual table in the Spanish media
As it turns out, such a league table was influenced by the VAR analysis used by Spanish arbitrators. Madrid “AS” published an alternative list of bands and changed the results of all meetings in which VAR determined the change in the division of points. According to her, Real Madrid would be without video verification! Not only that, Carlo Ancelotti players could already enjoy the title defended a year ago, because their advantage over the second Barcelona would be as much as 8 points.
The “AS” table was attached to the attached table of VAR decisions in all meetings in which the points without video repetitions would be separated differently. Among the matches mentioned, there were, among others, Madrid derby ended 1: 1, in which it was originally recognized that Angela Correi's goal by the weight of the draw was scored from Burned, winning 1: 0 Barcelona from Rayo Vallecano, after granting her penalty kick, or the triumph of Barcelona 3: 1 in the first match with Espanyol. Video analysis in that match showed twice that Papużek players were in positions burned after scoring the goal.
Such a combination can shock, but does it mean that the championship was distorted by VAR? If anything, you can give the opposite thesis, and the table without video analyzes is proof of what Spanish judges avoided expensive errors. Another issue is that VAR, present in football since 2016, made the arbitrators rely on it and prefer to let go of the action to later check it in a replay than to trust their own intuition. That is why the table arranged in this way is very hypothetical, because it is not known how a given judge would behave if he knew that he did not have support in the form of video repetitions.
A comparison of LaLiga tables created by “AS” is located in the photo gallery of this text.