The Apertura 2024 tournament went through many things, one of them were the complaints, criticisms and accusations of bad refereeing in the 19 days of the first round, as some teams reported that they were compromised with their campaign in the championship due to those bad refereeing. decisions.
For that reason, A report was released with the teams that benefited and affected by the judges’ errorsas well as what would have happened to the standings if the results were different, due to those controversial events.
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On the other hand, the eight teams in the quadrangulars hope that the referees do a good job and offer guarantees for the semifinals, as well as with the VAR that was the protagonist of a particular case and for which a replay of a match was requested.
From players, coaches, managers, to fans and journalists, they complained during the first half of 2024 about the refereeing in Colombian soccer, about controversial decisions, judges with low performance scores and matches that remained a bad memory.
The newspaper Time released a report on all the judges’ errors in the All against all, taking a total of 24 actions between the second and nineteenth day of the BetPlay Leagueand although each one occurred in a different match, two of them occurred in the same game.
During the match between Envigado and América, on February 18, which was 1-1, judge Ferney Trujillo did not call a penalty for the reds and did decree a charge from the 12 steps for the home team that was not, which caused quite a stir. scandal among fans.
Another point that the report made known is the number of teams that suffered from the bad decisions of the judges in Colombian football, as well as the teams that came out well, but without giving a judgment on any influence of said teams with the referees. .
For a start, América was the team most affected by referee errors in the BetPlay League with four actionsfollowed with three by Deportivo Cali, Jaguares and Equidad, the latter managed to qualify for the semi-final home runs despite the situation.
On the other hand, Among those who benefited from these decisions, there are two of those classified who are Millionaires and Junior with three factsthe same number of those eliminated Atlético Nacional and Independiente Medellín, the latter was left out of the tournament on the last day and due to goal difference.
Added to that, the report revealed that the judge with the most mistakes in the BetPlay 2024 League was Luis Delgado with four actions, one of the most remembered was in Pereira’s duel against Millonarios for not sending off midfielder Daniel Cataño for a hit to the Faber Gil’s face.
To conclude the report, the championship standings were shown, in a hypothetical case that the judges had made good decisions and nothing affected the teams’ campaign, leaving a surprise with the classification for the home runs.
According to the document, Junior de Barranquilla would add only 25 points because in four actions he benefited, while Águilas Doradas entered with 27 points if they were whistled for a penalty in the 1-1 draw against Equidad, the rest were the same clubs in home runs and varying the score to get into the top eight of the All against all.
Table of positions (without referee errors)
1. Bucaramanga: 38 points
2. Tolima: 38 points
3. Pereira: 36 points
4. Santa Fe: 36 points
5. Equity: 34 points
6. Once Caldas: 33 points
7. Millionaires: 30 points
8. Golden Eagles: 27 points
9. America: 26 points
10. Deportivo Cali: 26 points
11. Junior: 25 points
