BARCELONA – Real Madrid and Barcelona will meet on Saturday in Valdebebas in a classic that could mark the result of the League, with Atlético de Madrid as the third protagonist, and five days after the match the atmosphere in Spanish football is already installed in controversy. Barça’s victory against Valladolid was not only protested by the Pucelano club, but around the Bernabéu it came to be considered a “scandal” for which a very favorable refereeing of the Barça club was understood.
“I’m sure this referee will be in a game this weekend as a reward after today,” former Real Madrid player Roberto Carlos posted on his twitter account in a backlash that Barça said they had a favorable treatment of at him. By Jaime Latre, without showing a penalty by Jordi Alba or expelling Óscar Plano, who set fire to social networks.
While news outlets have focused on what not a few journalists close to the merengue club have described as “a robbery” and a “warning about what Madrid expects in the classic”, not even the political class has been left out. when his own mayor, Óscar Puente, exploded with irony, saying that “I think the referee should have gone into the Barça locker room to argue with them. They almost didn’t win”, while Ronald Koeman, acknowledging that he was “, he was hopeful in the controversy that may arise does not condition the refereeing next Saturday:” There was a time in the season when we deserved different decisions from the referees. I don’t think the moments in today’s game can influence him. “
However, Barcelona were warned that during Monday’s game there were other games to consider in the referee’s overall performance, such as an attack on Antoine Griezmann that was not taken into account or a possible penalty. against Sergiño Dest who was also left without a penalty … All this without forgetting the old controversies that favored Real Madrid during the season.
Whether he remembered the classic from the first round or the merengue team’s victories against Real Sociedad, Real Betis, Granada or Eibar that were not exempt from very questionable games in favor of Zidane’s team and that, it is stated from Barça, I do not remember in this moment when it could have influenced, and not a little, in the classification.