Barcelona draw with Rayo Vallecano in La Liga after VAR outage

Rayo were furious aft a VAR nonaccomplishment meant Lamine Yamal’s first-half punishment could not beryllium reviewed successful their 1-1 gully against the defending La Liga rubric holders.

Barcelona dropped their archetypal points successful La Liga this play arsenic Rayo Vallecano fought backmost to unafraid a 1-1 gully astatine location to the champions successful a testy brushwood wherever a faulty Video Assistant Referee (VAR) strategy caused controversy.

Rayo substitute Fran Perez thrashed location a 67th-minute equaliser as helium stole successful unmarked astatine the backmost station from a country aft Lamine Yamal’s 40th-minute punishment had enactment Barca up connected Sunday.

A malfunctioning VAR ensured the crippled was clouded successful contention aft Pep Chavarria’s situation connected Yamal, which led to the spot footwear being awarded, could not beryllium reviewed due to the fact that the strategy was not moving astatine the time.

Chavarria did marque interaction with Yamal’s thigh, but the punishment grant mightiness person been overturned connected review.

Both teams had been informed of the faulty strategy astatine kickoff, but Rayo’s vigorous protests implicit referee Mateo Busquets’s determination ensured the remainder of the clash astatine Vallecas Stadium was played successful a tempestuous atmosphere.

Indignant location supporters voiced their fury astatine each consequent determination that went against their side.

Barcelona goalkeeper Joan Garcia made respective outstanding stops to deny Rayo a triumph astatine the extremity of a week successful which the nine from the Madrid suburbs secured a spot successful the Conference League radical signifier connected their instrumentality to Europe aft 24 years.

Garcia made a point-blank prevention to contradict Andrei Ratiu successful the 12th infinitesimal and, successful the 2nd half, spectacularly denied efforts from Isi Palazon and a breakaway connected extremity by Jorge de Frutos.

Substitute Sergio Camello could person won the crippled for Rayo successful the past minute, but with the extremity astatine his mercy, helium miscued his shot, allowing a grateful Garcia to stitchery easily.

For Barca, Daniel Olmo was blameworthy of missing an casual extremity soon aft teen Yamal’s punishment had enactment the visitors ahead. Olmo’s onslaught sailed implicit the apical of the crossbar from adjacent range, mounting disconnected an aggravated absorption from furious manager Hansi Flick.

Barcelona had won their opening 2 games of the season, but the dropped points mean Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao are the lone 2 clubs with a 100 percent grounds aft 3 matches successful La Liga. Rayo person 4 points from their opening matches of the campaign.

Rayo Vallecano manager Inigo Perez speaks with the refereeafter Barcelona subordinate Lamine Yamal’s punishment successful the 40th infinitesimal was incapable to beryllium reviewed by the VAR owed to a malfunction [Isabel Infantes/Reuters]