Edison Cavani’s fury after Uruguay’s elimination: the moment of the punch on the VAR monitor

The Uruguayan national team suffered the elimination of the World Cup in Qatar 2022 this Wednesday despite having won 2-0 the match against Ghana, full of controversy generated by the interventions of the VAR (or its absence). After the final whistle, which sealed the fate of the Azzurri and the ticket for the return home after the group stage, the players expressed their anger towards the referee, especially the striker edinson cavani That he punched him and threw the VAR monitor to the ground when he was coming out of the tunnel leading to the changing rooms.

The Uruguayans were annoying during the match due to some key situations that occurred in the match that the VAR attended but also in others that did not. After the painful elimination, when the players were on their way to the locker room to applause ea “Let’s Go Upstairs” heard from the stands, the cameras filmed the forward Cavani who pushed the VAR monitor to the ground with a show of anger.

After the embarrassing situation, some people who were on the playing field approached, left the monitor on the ground for a long time and a person in a suit and tie seems to be taking a picture with his cell phone. From that moment silence fell and the message from the fans to the players began to be calm. “Calm Down, Dad”yelled a fan in the stands.

In that long line of players who have left the field, the figure of the historian Luis Suarez with a broken heart, as this was his last World Cup, like Diego Godín. The footballer left the field of play accompanied by a member of the coaching staff with a feeling of anger at the interventions of the VAR, as well as sadness at having been eliminated in the group stage. The party has had several controversies.

The first came 15′ into the first half, when the VAR assistant called the German referee daniele siebert review a play for a possible penalty that he himself had canceled for offside. Although the images showed the intervention of an offside player in goalkeeper Sergio Rochet’s sights after a shot, he decided to award a penalty to Mohammed Kudus and anger erupted in South Americans. For the tranquility of the Charrúas, the young Nacional goalkeeper contained his shot and kept the partial level at 0-0.

The other came late as Uruguay looked for their third goal of the game. In a play from the left in the second added minute, Edinson went looking for the ball, disputing it with the defender Alidu Seidu, who, entering the area, destabilized his right foot and knocked him to the ground. Despite this, the VAR did not intervene in a play which, compared to other penalties taken during the tournament, it was punishable.

Already with the news of having been eliminated, the footballers raged to seek the referee for the actions of the match. Uruguay was eliminated from the 2022 Qatar World Cup despite winning their match against Ghana.