This is how the final LaLiga classification would have ended after 38 days without the interventions of the VAR

All eyes day after day point to the VAR. This technology that came to help referees make football fairer, and it seems that what is resulting is dividing spectators and sowing even more doubts. The truth is that it is a very useful tool, which used correctly can be very beneficial. The point is that criteria need to be unified around its use, so that we are all clear in which situations the VAR should enter and when and what criteria the referees follow when making decisions.

It is clear that the controversy will always be there, and in most cases one of the two teams will not be happy with a referee’s decision. This is why doubts arise regarding the VAR, given that it came as a tool to impose justice and put an end to discrepancies in referee decisions, and the opposite is being achieved.

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Next, we will show the comparison between the current LaLiga classification after 38 matchdays played, and the one that would exist if the VAR did not exist.

After this edition of LaLiga EA Sports has ended, if the VAR had not existed, things would have had a different outcome. First of all we can see that the Champions League positions would be the same, but in the Europa League it would be different, Real Betis would be the one that would play in this European competition and Real Sociedad who would qualify for the Conference League.

Things in relegation would also have been different, without the existence of the VAR, both Almería and Granada would have lost the category, but the third relegated to LaLiga Hypermotion would be Las Palmas, so Cádiz would have achieved permanence for one more seas
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In the middle zone of the table there would also have been some changes in positions, although they would not affect Europe or relegation, only the fight for position.