{"id":231223,"date":"2026-04-04T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/video-technology-spares-barcelona-the-fate-of-atletico-madrid\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:10:10","slug":"video-technology-spares-barcelona-the-fate-of-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/video-technology-spares-barcelona-the-fate-of-atletico-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Video technology spares Barcelona the fate of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-us\/news\/video-technology-spares-barcelona-the-fate-of-atletico-madrid\/blta813976556e2b474\">Video technology spares Barcelona the fate of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-us\/news\/video-technology-spares-barcelona-the-fate-of-atletico-madrid\/blta813976556e2b474\">https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-us\/news\/video-technology-spares-barcelona-the-fate-of-atletico-madrid\/blta813976556e2b474<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-04 16:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.goal.com\">www.goal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><span>Barcelona were on the verge of starting the second half of their match against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid on Saturday at the Metropolitano Stadium, in the 30th round of La Liga, a man down, when the referee showed a red card to the Catalan side\u2019s defender, Gerard Mart\u00edn, in the 46th minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><span>The referee showed the young defender a straight red card following a heavy challenge in midfield, in which he struck Atl\u00e9tico player Tiago Almada on the leg.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>Read also<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><strong>Arbeloa: The players didn\u2019t understand that they had to give 200% to win<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fco-fc-video-player\" aria-label=\"Video player\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><strong>Former England star: Salah is broken and has lost confidence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><strong>Before USA and Iran&#8230; historic clashes hosted by World Cup stadiums<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><span>However, the referee reversed his decision after reviewing the incident via video technology, which showed that Martin had struck the ball first, before making contact with his opponent\u2019s foot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><span>The referee rescinded the red card he had shown the Bar\u00e7a player, settling for a yellow card instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><span>Rojo Blancos player Nico Gonz\u00e1lez had been sent off before the end of the first half.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-us\/news\/video-technology-spares-barcelona-the-fate-of-atletico-madrid\/blta813976556e2b474\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video technology spares Barcelona the fate of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-us\/news\/video-technology-spares-barcelona-the-fate-of-atletico-madrid\/blta813976556e2b474 Publish Date: 2026-04-04 16:35:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.goal.com\/images\/v3\/getty-2269830098\/crop\/MM5DKMBQGU5DEOBRGU5G433XMU5DAORSGYYA====\/GettyImages-2269830098.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231225,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231223\/revisions\/231225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}