Gerard Romero, a journalist known to be a Barcelona fan, recently released an audio clip over what happened in an incident involving Vinicius Jr for Real Madrid against Almeria.
The audio clip was the conversation between the referee Francisco Hernandez Maeso and VAR official Hernandez Hernandez reviewing a possible elbow from Vini on an Almeria player late in the game.
In the clip, Hernandez Hernandez can be heard hinting that he saw the Brazilian winger make a foul in the box.
As per Cadena SER, the Spanish referee committee has now opened an investigation over how Romero was able to get access to the VAR audio.
There is also an investigation to be done over why the referee, Hernandez Maeso, was not made to review the incident on the VAR monitor before approving the goal.
The entire audio's transcription goes something like this:
Hernández Hernández (VAR) : Possible foul in attack. I want to see. A little further back, a little further back (...) Ugh, I want to see it in short .
Hernández Maeso (Referee) : For me it is a struggle between both of us. He complains about his face but I don't see anything .
Hernández Hernández: When he's going to take it off, when he's going to take it off with his arm... when he strokes it, it hits him in the face .
Hernández Hernández : Let's go live .
It’s highly unlikely that Real Madrid be stripped of their three points, but the officials could be in trouble if found guilty of not doing their jobs properly in the controversial La Liga clash.
