Barcelona may request El Clasico replay if VAR is found wrong in disallowing Yamal goal says Laporta

Barcelona may request a full replay of Sunday's 3-2 LaLiga loss to Real Madrid if Lamine Yamal's 28th-minute attempt to score, which was ruled out after a VAR review, is confirmed to be a goal, club president Joan Laporta stated.

The club will request all video and audio footage of the incident from the Spanish Football Federation, Laporta stated on Monday.

The match was paused for several minutes while the VAR attempted to determine whether Yamal's effort had crossed the goal line, but it was unable to find a clear camera angle, so the decision not to award a goal stood.

"If... the club understands that an error was made in the revision of the incident, we will take all available measure to reverse the situation, without discounting, obviously, any necessary legal action," Laporta said.

"If it is confirmed that it was a legal goal, we will move ahead and we do not discount requesting that the game be replayed, just as has happened in another game in Europe due to a VAR error."

A Belgian Pro League match between Anderlecht and Genk, originally played in December, was scheduled to be replayed in its entirety due to a VAR error, after the Disciplinary Council for Professional Football ruled in favour of a Genk appeal.

Laporta expressed dissatisfaction with the "improper use" of VAR, claiming the tool was causing "confusions with contradictory criteria according to matches and teams."

"We understand the difficulty faced by officials, but it's for that reason that such tools exist (like VAR) which should help the competition be fairer and not the other way around," he said.

Barcelona, with 70 points after 32 games, are 11 points behind leaders Real Madrid.

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