In a key battle in the fourth round of the Chinese Super League on the evening of April 5, Beijing time, Shandong Taishan challenged Qingdao Manatee as a guest. In the first half of the game, Taishan scored 1 goal by naturalized international Fernando, but was blown off by the referee, causing a huge controversy.
This scene happened in the 36th minute of the game, Fernando received a direct plug from his teammates, carried away the Qingdao defenders, and then Fernando easily grasped the one-knife goal. Then, just as Fernando was celebrating his first goal of the Super League season, an unexpected scene happened.
VAR suddenly intervened in the game and, after seven minutes of replay confirmation, the referee ruled that the goal was invalid. The reason is that Pato had previously committed a foul when he broke the ball from Qingdao. And it was Pato after the ball was broken that instigated the attack of the Taishan team.
For the referee to watch the VAR replay for a long time and blow away Taishan's key goal, many Taishan fans have questioned: "Abuse of VAR will only ruin football!": "Think about why Fellaini left?