BARCELONA – The second leg of the Copa del Rey semi-finals between Barcelona and Sevilla had a third half in the locker room tunnel when Monchi, Sevilla’s sporting director, and Pepe Castro, the Andalusian club’s president, clashed with Barça players and coaches.
Sevilla’s representatives coincided in the locker room tunnel with most of the Barça players, who delayed their entry into the locker room, remaining on the field celebrating their passage to the Cup final which will take place on April 17 in Sevilla.
“You always win the same way”, assured Cadena SER that Monchi and Castro hit the Barcelona players, who responded forcefully before entering the locker room.
“They go home warm,” Messi would have replied, according to the version published in the newspaper “Mundo Deportivo”. ESPN He tried to confirm this information with Messi’s close surroundings, but received no response.
On the other hand, Barça sources confirmed that a few minutes after the heat, the representatives of Seville tried to lower the tension even through apologies.
Monchi and Castro sat down with other representatives of the official Seville expedition in the Camp Nou box, where the Barça protocol department had reserved seats for them.
ESPN He found out that during the game, in the VIP area of the Camp Nou, there was tension due to the constant comments made by the representatives of Sevilla, nervous about the way the game was going.
Barcelona and Sevilla have met three times in the last three weeks and virtually every match ended in controversy.
The Catalans demanded a penalty from Jordi Alba, which the referee did not award after the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals, in which Sevilla won 2-0. Then, Suso set fire to the networks with several weeping emoticons to respond to some words of the young Pedri.
Days later, the Twitter account from Sevilla made fun of Barcelona after the Catalans’ defeat against Paris Saint-Germain in the first stage of the eighth round of the Champions League.
Barcelona responded on the field last weekend, defeating the Andalusians 0-2 in La Liga, but there was controversy again after Sevilla asked Messi for a red card for a double yellow card.
Monchi was even surprised by the television cameras asking for the card and saying that the “crying statements”, referring to Koeman, “had an effect”.
The Catalan club won again on Wednesday in the Copa del Rey (3-0) to overcome 2-0 in the first leg and this time the Andalusians demanded both a possible expulsion of Óscar Mingueza for a double yellow and a penalty on handball by Clement Lenglet at the end of the match.