Danjuma: “The penalty was key, it is not an excuse”

The Valencia forward and former Villarreal player stated that “in the VAR you cannot see the same intensity as on the pitch”

Valencia striker Arnaut Danjuma He regretted the defeat at Mestalla against Villarreal and assured that the penalty called in favor of the Castellón team in the last moments of the first half was decisive for the fate of the match.

«It was a difficult, tough game, but I think the penalty was key, it is not an excuse, but then we had to change our way of playing when we were doing well in the first half,” the former Villarreal player told Movistar.

The Dutch attacker highlighted that the referee initially did not consider it to be a penalty “but then the VAR called it and In the VAR you cannot see the same intensity as on the field of play..

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