Referees, never ending noise: protest tweets, whistles and more controversy after the Real Madrid pressure weeks

“Respect the referee, respect football”. That was the message that the RFEF and LaLiga They wanted to convey this day to end weeks of controversy and tension before the calendar is about, but they did not get it. Cole’s decisionsGiats were in the spotlight again in the dispute for the title and in the escape of the descent. There were hobbies that whistled, as happened in the Bernabéu to the cry of “Corruption in the Federation!”and the same clubs that put their players next to the arbitration trio behind the banner later showed their discontent with decisions that either consider that they were harmed or did not understand how they were managed. Of course, none fell against the interests of those who fight the title and were especially relevant in the case of duels Valencia-Atlético de Madrid y Las Palmas-Barcelonawhere the descent was also at stake.

Valencia was the team that, with more forcefulness, questioned the arbitration of Busquets Ferrer With Iglesias Villanueva in the VAR. In the 55th minute, with the 0-2 on the scoreboard and Valencia overturned in the goal of Atlético, A Gayà center headed Sadiq and the ball hit Bocajarro on Javi Galán’s armbelow but separated from the body. Mestalla claimed a penalty, but did not whistle and the VAR did not even intervene. Minutes after the end of the match, Valencia released a message on their social networks with the video of the play: “We respect the referees, but this is a penalty.”

No one understood that the referee had not even been warned to penetrate the images. Not even Simeone. «They showed me the image of the penalty and is the same play on the Eurocup. He hits him in his hand; I don’t understand anything. In the Eurocup it was a penalty of Cucurella. They say the hand was dead, but hit him in his hand. I hope it is always clearer to all because the situation is little understandable, One day it will be criminal, another no ... I hope the same line could be handled on all the teams, ”said the Argentine, who took the 0-3 victory, but could see the duel complicated in that play.

That is what Corberán thought, who wanted to be more diplomatic: «I prefer to think that it has not been a penalty, it hurts less. Because a goal I think would have changed the dynamics of the game completely ». «There is a VAR to correct errors and I think it is healthier to think that it has not been a penalty than to think that it was and has not been pointed out», Added the technician.

The doubt, as Simeone evidenced, remains. For most Spanish referees it is not a penalty. The CTA refined this season for the criteria for the hands to be a natural position. In this case they consider that it is not punishable because, despite being detached from the body, does not occupy an antinatural position. The problem is that for the UEFA it is or, at least, this was determined in September at a meeting of the Referees Committee with the example of that of Cucurella that, in the quarterfinals against Germany In the Eurocup, he did not whistle.

The criterion, which made public a filtration for UEFA anger, is that the English Anthony Taylor and Stuart Attwell (var) had to be a penalty. «The hand with the ball that stops a door shot should be punished more strictlyand in most cases a criminal shot should be granted, unless the defender’s arm is very close to the body or on the body, ”they collected in the observations document. «In this case, the defender stops the shooting with his arm, which is not very close to the body, becoming bigger, so a criminal shot should have been granted», They settled.

The only difference with that of Galán is that he did not intercepted a ten -meter auction like Musiala, but the Bocajarro task of Sadiq. As Simeone, in Valencia they do not understand the criteria or that the VAR will not call Busquets to evaluate the play, so There is no audio of the interpretation.

Review of an offside

There is the controversial play that lit the game at the Gran Canaria stadium between Las Palmas and the Barça. In the 81st minute, with the Catalans winning 0-1 but with the insular overturned, there are A hand of Eric García In the area, on his back and falling, that he stops a shot by Álex Suárez. Cordero Vega does not point the penalty spot, but from the big hill immediately calls him from the var. «The arm, although it goes to support, is extended, occupies a space, and is a goal shot, But I want values ​​that there is also a previous off -game position»I explained.

First shows the image of the hand and then several shots to verify The out of the game that in LaLiga this season is already semi -automatic. However, the collegiate reviews until checking the advanced position of the Álex Muñoz side in the center of which the entire play and that invalidates it is born. Why then warned the VAR? “After this week, it is normal for everything to be reviewed”Eric García commented among smiles. The protests of Real Madrid, the complaint letter for the arbitrations and the private meeting with the CTA is “the week” to which the Barca central referred.

He did not want Diego Martínez Find explanations but asked the referee at the end of the party. “Why do you stop?”the coach asked in a dialogue that the Movistar Plus cameras hunted. “No, but it’s fine executed, because if I hadn’t been off, it would have been missing …”, said the referee. “But it is that … So why do you stop it?” The coach claimed to what this answer was found: “For people to know, so they don’t think not …”. And there was the conversation that Martínez summarized in a press room. “It is an interpretation issue and hopefully from now on some of these strange plays fall in the face.”

Nor did the controversy be fought the ray. He stayed with ten against Villarreal for the Red that Garcia vegetable showed Fruits to the edge of the break by an entrance that the video arbitration. That caused the anger of President Martín Presa, who left the box to go down to the changing rooms. In Bernabéu, Real Madrid, after complaints, had an afternoon placid with Girona.

It is not that there was no penalties or expulsions in the rest of the day, but they were clear plays in which the VAR did not even have to mediate.

Just an ‘elite’ referee

The arbitrators’ statement asking for respect and the RFEF campaign contrasts with which for this day the CTA has only designated a collegiate ‘Elite UEFA’. Was Sánchez Martínez And Celta-osasuna arbitrated, a duel where less tension was expected than in others that marked the calendar. Hernández Hernández, who arbitrated European competition, and Gil Manzano rested.

However, a Lamb Vegawhich has returned to first this season, the Las Palmas-Barcelona match was assigned, aided by Del Cerro Grande.

At the head of the Vor room in Vallecas and in Mestalla there were Two descended colleges Second last summer but follow in the VAR de Primera: Figueroa Vázquez, who warned of the expulsion that from the lightning they see very rigorous, and Iglesias Villanueva, which did not consider reviewing Galán’s hand.

The reason for these designations must be placed, according to federative sources, in which they are held two weeks before, that the referees usually whistle every 15 days and that this day had to be fit with the choice of the members in the first leg of the Semifinals of the Copa del Rey with two tense games between Barça and Atlético and Real Sociedad-Real Madrid.