42 goals: VAR slaughters Real Madrid!

No club has lost more from the introduction of VAR in La Liga than Real Madrid.

According to "Sports Three", the video assistant referee has corrected the mistakes of the referees on the field since 2018; Fouls that, if not for video review, would have cost Real Madrid 42 wrong goals, almost twice as many as second-placed Atletico Madrid and Villarreal with 22, while Barcelona are seventh with 19.

Video assistant referee technology officially entered the Spanish first division in the 2018-19 season, and the competition is now in its ninth season of using this system. According to the statistical data of Masterchip on the X social network, Real Madrid stands at the top of the table with a significant margin of the teams that have had the most goals denied due to the decision of the video assistant referee, and 42 goals of this team have been rejected after reviewing the scene.

The latest example of this happened in the match between Real Madrid and Villarreal. In this scene, a goal that would have made it 2-0 was disallowed because a review showed that Vinicius Jr. was fouled seconds before the goal by pulling Nathan Saliba's hair. Referee Isidro Diaz de Mera did not see the foul and initially conceded the goal, but after Alejandro Muniz called from the video control room and reviewed the scene, he disallowed the goal.

Since the launch of this system, the video assistant referee has corrected the referee's initial decision against Real Madrid 42 times; The goals that were all confirmed at the first moment and without the presence of this technology would have been registered as a result of the matches. This statistic shows an average of nearly 5 goals conceded per season.

After Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Villarreal are next with 22 goals conceded, which is almost half of Real Madrid's initial goal tally before the technology intervened. Celta Vigo, Real Sociedad and Sevilla are in the next positions, each with 20 disallowed goals.

Barcelona, with 19 rejected goals during these eight seasons and the opening games of the ninth season, is in seventh place in this statistical table.

In this way, in these years, Real Madrid has celebrated 42 times a goal that was subsequently invalidated by the intervention of the video assistant referee, that is, 23 goals more than Barcelona.

If football was followed without video assistant referees between 2018 and 2026, an average of 4.6 illegal goals would be awarded to Real Madrid per La Liga season, compared to 2.1 for Barcelona. This average was 2.4 goals for Atlético Madrid and Villarreal and 2.2 goals per season for Celta Vigo, Real Sociedad and Sevilla.