Sporting hockey coach ‘explode’: “I don’t know what the VAR is for”

ANDfrom Bosch, coach of Sporting, left this Saturday harsh criticism of referee Miguel Guilherme, after the Antonio Super Cup Hockey Book, in which the lions were defeated by Benfica (2-3). 

“First of all, I want to congratulate the champion. I think it was a great skate hockey game between two great teams. It is normal, in these games, there are times when we are on top, as we were for a long time in the first part, and others where we are on the bottom, as happened at the beginning of the second one”, started by saying Edo Bosch, quoted by the newspaper Record, before addressing the blue card shown to Nolito.

“ Everything was going well until a gentleman, who is not the first and will not be the last time he does this, decided to show a non-existent blue card and then lost control and set up a big mess. It's a shame, because it was being a great ending, with alternation in the control of the game between two great teams. A great show for this time of season. It's a shame the protagonist had to be the master of the whistle. But the problem is who put this gentleman running a game like this. I've had 40 years of hockey, and I already knew that if this gentleman whistled at this game, things would go sideways so that they'd slip over. And it wasn't just me who knew. Everyone who's been in hockey for 30 years knew. Whoever appointed him now appears and assumes responsibility ", challenged the technician of the lions. 

Edo Bosch had no doubt that the blue card would eventually condition the match. 

“Of course, of course. The game was tied 1-1. It was a thing like so many others that happened during the game. Five minutes later there was another similar in the opposite area and nothing was marked, just a foul. By the same sir. From then on, playing four against three, in such a balanced game, in which the details tell a lot, that was a great detail. It allowed Benfica to move ahead of the marker and forced us to run after the result, which is not easy. It was a very big injustice. This game and the quality of players, both on one side and on the other, deserved other gentlemen to whistle. Honestly, to finish, I don't know what the video is for. They remain the artists of the film ", exclaimed. 

Super Cup delivered, follows (now) the championship 

Despite Sporting's grievances, it was even Benfica raising the Super Cup trophy at the Santo Tirso Municipal Pavilion, at a time when attention is about to turn to the national championship that starts... tomorrow. 

The first journey will also be entitled to a Classic that promises to be filled with emotions, as always, being scheduled for Wednesday night, between FC Porto and Benfica

Before that, hockey Sunday starts at 3:30 p.m., with Oliveirense-Sanjoanense, followed by the Youth Pacense-Youth of Viana (at 4 p.m.), Riba d’Ave-Valongo, OC Barcelos-Tomar and HC Braga-AD Oeiras (all at 5 p.m.). For Tuesday, the fight between Sporting and Candelaria is reserved at 8:30.