Ernesto Valverde has defended centre-back Clement Lenglet after he was sent off on his first start for Barcelona against Girona on Sunday at the Camp Nou.
The Barcelona boss said he did not expect VAR to be used to check the incident in which Lenglet clashed with Pere Pons. He also did not think his defender deserved a red card.
“I didn’t know in that incident with Lenglet they were going to ask VAR to decide about that,” he said.
”It was a bit of a surprise for me. In the end we thought that VAR is to solve the huge problems, where the referee might be accused by the media of a mistake, but in other situations, for instance the Real Sociedad foul on the halfway line.