The Liga MX In its desire to optimize the application of the regulations in its competition, it launched the semi-automatic offside system (SAOT), which received its first assignment when it judged as invalid the score by Colombian José “Pantera” Zúñiga in favor of the America against the Xolos Tijuana.
This action that launched this system occurred in the 24th minute of the match when the Colombian finished alone in the area to nest the ball in the nets of the Xolos from Tijuana, but the system immediately detected the forward position of the Americanist at the moment exact of the play.
The Colombian forward finished off after a double header in the area, when Rodrigo Aguirre and then his own Zuniga what he defined about the goalkeeper Toño Rodríguez, causing the play to appear legal in the first instance, but later with the application of the SAOT The verdict was reversed and the annotation could thus be invalidated.
Right at that moment marked a before and after for the MX League, especially after the presiding commissioner Mikel Arriola, In recent days he highlighted the benefits of this system with cutting-edge technology that will be able to better detect these plays in order to help referees not have so many failures.
He Semi-Automatic Out of Place System uses high-speed cameras and sensors to track the exact position of the ball and players, allowing more accurate determination of when a footballer is ahead, reducing the margins of human error.
What is SAOT
He Semi-automatic Out of Place System It is a real-time application that can detect the television cameras that the VAR has for the review of this type of plays and that is already used in the English Premier League.
This mechanism It is an enormous step to be able to optimize the competition of the MX League and make the results fairer, especially with the accumulation of controversies that have been generated by this cause and where supposedly the MX League made an effort to acquire this system in an amount close to the $4 million dollars according to unofficial sources.
This technology will help clarify actions that are not perceptible to the human eye in the first instance.
In this way, the Clausura 2026 began with a historic event, since Mexican soccer fully entered the era of precision technology, and the goal disallowed Raul Zuniga It will remain as the first official record of the SAOT in Liga MX.
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