BARCELONA (SPAIN) (ITALPRESS) – “First of all, I want to congratulate our opponents, but yesterday’s refereeing, both by the referee and the VAR, was a disgrace.” Barcelona president Joan Laporta hit out the day after the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, which saw Atlético Madrid advance.
The Blaugrana’s top executive criticized the referees’ decisions in the double-header against the Colchoneros. “What they did to us is intolerable,” thundered Laporta.
“Already in the first leg, they didn’t award us a clear penalty and they sent off a player who deserved a yellow card, because Giuliano didn’t have control of the ball. It was a quarter-final in which the refereeing decisions hurt us greatly. The same thing happened in the return match. They sent off a player—the reference to the red card to Eric Garcia—when Jules Koundé could have easily reached the ball, so Eric wasn’t the last man. The referee had given the yellow card, which was the correct decision, but the VAR made him change his mind. Another bad decision. Furthermore, Ferran’s goal was legal. The one on Olmo was a penalty, and the challenge on Fermin, judge it however you want, is intolerable. They split his lip and the boy suffered a lot while they were stitching him up, and he wasn’t even shown a card.”
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