Overview
- RFEF and LaLiga released the Comité Técnico de Árbitros (CTA) VAR audio that records exchanges between VAR official Daniel Jesús Trujillo and referee Miguel Ángel Ortiz about the Metropolitano derby.
- The audio shows a VAR-prompted review for suspected mistaken identity that led Ortiz to cancel Jude Bellingham's yellow and instead book Cristian Romero after the replay showed Romero stepped on Bellingham.
- Spain's Technical Committee of Referees publicly ruled that Kang‑in Lee's tackle on Federico Valverde was a clear and obvious error by the on-pitch referee and VAR and said the correct call should have been a red card.
- The CTA upheld the handling of the Dean Huijsen incident, and the VAR recommendation to upgrade his yellow to a red was confirmed after the referee checked goalkeeper position and judged there was no dispute for the ball, with the penalty kept.
- Real Madrid and some former referees continue to contest the Romero and Lee decisions, and Spanish reports say the referee faces short-term exclusion from appointments as a performance sanction.