barcelona barcelona coach ronald koeman expressed his frustration with the small margins involved in var decisions after his side had a goal ruled out for a fractional offside in saturdays 51 win at home to alaves in la ligabarca thrashed their opponents thanks to two goals each from lionel messi and francisco trincao and a late strike from junior firpo for a seventh league win in a row but the dutch coach was still annoyed about a disallowed firsthalf effort from messimessi finished off on the rebound after antoine griezmanns shot had been saved but a video review ruled griezmanns shoulder had been offside when he latched on to the through ballyou need a magnifying glass to see that the move is offside koeman told reportersive seen the replay several times and for me its not offside but its best to not speak about var because its not the referees fault and in the end we won the game which is the most important thingformer spanish referee eduardo iturralde gonzalez said ruling the goal out was likely to increase disillusion with var among fansthose operating var are shooting themselves in the foot what they are doing is turning half of the country into nonbelievers he told radio station cadena serbarca director guillermo amor added it was a goal it wasnt offside everyone at the club agrees its such a shame that were still talking about var its not a good sign that var continues to attract so much controversy two years on and its still creating a lot of doubt and confusionbarca have won their last seven games in a row and are in a confident mood ahead of tuesdays champions league clash at home to paris st germainwe are in excellent shape right now koeman addedin the first half we were a little inconsistent but after they scored their goal we reacted very well and broke down their defensive wall thanks to our quality and our determination