2023-10-27 16:40:00
If he had found his smile once more following getting angry in the wake of Standard-Anderlecht, Brian Riemer had not completely turned the page on the Clasico either. He returned to what he considers to be four refereeing errors to the disadvantage of Sporting Anderlecht.
Following the Clasico lost (3-2) by Anderlecht despite a two-goal lead at half-time, Brian Riemer had demanded of its players to report to Neerpede earlier than expected. “The best thing to do following such a scenario is to get back in the saddle as quickly as possible. They had 24 hours free. It was not a punishment, just a necessity,” begins the Dane at a press conference.
But if he was angry with his players and himself, Riemer might not do without returning, coldly, to the scenario of the meeting. “I don’t like to point fingers, and I think we might have avoided certain goals conceded. But when a team suffers 4 unfavorable decisions, it will inevitably have an impact on the match,” he believes.
The problem during Standard-Anderlecht? The VAR
“There is this hand from Leoni, which takes away a goal from us. But they also have two hands on their goals, on the first and the third, and hands that I consider more obvious. In my eyes, we signal either the 3, or none,” continues Brian Riemer. “And finally, there is this penalty that was not called, which they have already admitted was a mistake.”
Four phases, therefore, in the eyes of the Anderlecht coach. “They take away 2 goals from us, they give them 2. It has an impact. But in my opinion, the real problem here is VAR,” asserts the Dane. “We brought VAR into football to correct clear errors, and they don’t even look at the images. They watch Theo’s (Leoni) phase, call the referee and he makes his decision. Ok, no problem. .. but why not call him for the others?”
Anderlecht cheated by the arbitration?
It is therefore not really Jonathan Lardot that Brian Riemer blames. “The referee on the pitch may have difficulty seeing certain things, I understand that. But this is a VAR problem. They failed to correct the big mistakes in this match and make things fair “. As for the explanations published on Monday, during which Lardot explained that he would have liked to be called by his colleague in Tubize, they did not really help.
“I accept refereeing errors. I make them, the players make them, the journalists make them,” smiles Riemer. “But now I’m frustrated because he asked to see the footage, and the VAR told him it wasn’t necessary. Lardot is a top referee with experience, he says he would like to see the images and the VAR refuses? I would have liked to have an explanation from them. But these errors are part of football. Let’s hope they even out in the end.”
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