![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/former-liverpool-boss-rafa-benitez-hits-out-after-new-var-controversy-anyone-can-see-it/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/0_benitez.jpg&description=Rafa Benitez was left furious after Celta Vigo dropped into the relegation zone following a 2-1 loss to Las Palmas, with his side having a goal disallowed by VAR Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has slammed VAR after his Celta Vigo side had a goal disallowed in their 2-1 defeat to Las Palmas. The result means Celta are now in the relegation zone after conceding two late goals. Anastasios Douvakis gave Celta the lead in the second half, before Jonathan Viera converted an 84th minute penalty and Marc Cardona scored a dramatic winner in the 97th minute. However, Benitez was furious after the game over Jorgen Strand Larsen's goal getting chalked off after a VAR review. Larsen thought he had given Celta the lead in the first half when he rounded Las Palmas goalkeeper Alvaro Valles and slotted the ball into the back of the net. But VAR intervened and ruled that Douvikas had fouled defender Mika Marmol in the build-up and the goal was ultimately disallowed, prompting an angry post-match response from Benitez. "It's absurd," he told DAZN, as per Football Espana. "Every something has to happen to you. Having a goal like that disallowed… those types of plays kill you. Even so you react, you have the game under control and then what if a penalty, what if a foul… "How can we not lose in the end? If we score a legal goal and they take it away from you. In that play, my player is ahead, he is in front, I'm watching it right now. I don't understand where the foul is. "We will have to play something else if that is a foul. Anyone can see it it makes no sense to call those things. It can't be, this is football. We're not talking about ping pong. We're continually rowing against the current. "I don't really have much desire to talk. The team has done well in general. We have played a good game against a tough opponent. But if I say everything I think, we would be having a lot of problems." Benitez was appointed Celta boss at the start of the season but his side have struggled so){kind=link}
Rafa Benitez was left furious after Celta Vigo dropped into the relegation zone following a 2-1 loss to Las Palmas, with his side having a goal disallowed by VAR
Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has slammed VAR after his Celta Vigo side had a goal disallowed in their 2-1 defeat to Las Palmas.
The result means Celta are now in the relegation zone after conceding two late goals. Anastasios Douvakis gave Celta the lead in the second half, before Jonathan Viera converted an 84th minute penalty and Marc Cardona scored a dramatic winner in the 97th minute.
However, Benitez was furious after the game over Jorgen Strand Larsen’s goal getting chalked off after a VAR review. Larsen thought he had given Celta the lead in the first half when he rounded Las Palmas goalkeeper Alvaro Valles and slotted the ball into the back of the net.
But VAR intervened and ruled that Douvikas had fouled defender Mika Marmol in the build-up and the goal was ultimately disallowed, prompting an angry post-match response from Benitez. “It’s absurd,” he told DAZN, as per Football Espana.