The double standard of refereeing: “Go on, go on!” From red surrealist to Gueye with Tchouameni

clubs are tired

The state of arbitration criteria, especially the absence of criteria, is so chaotic that it seems like all teams in the League, large and humble, have agreed for the first time. In recent weeks, Seville, Espanyol, Cádiz and Atlético have made statements showing their opposition to the drift of arbitration. this season. And games similar to what happened this weekend justify clubs and focus on referees who apply different criteria and contradictory routines depending on the teams affected.

This Saturday Villarreal player Samu Chukwueze was crushed in a game. Real Madrid player Aurelien Tchouaméni jumped over the grass and in a very dangerous move stabbed his studs into the opponent’s shin. The 41st minute was fast-paced and Arberola Rojas didn’t even foul. Quique Setién became enraged after checking it on the tablet and called out to the fourth referee: “Isn’t it from VAR?” Cantabrian did not give credit and did not warn the referee from VAR about the seriousness of the game. shouts. Finally, what caused the immense anger of the visiting coach, who went back to the bench and yelled, “Fucking on my goddamn mom.” Not red, not yellow, not missing. Hard to understand.

Seville exploded

On Friday, the opposite happened. In Sevilla, Pape Gueye was sent off after receiving two yellow cards for two involuntary moves in the 20th minute of the match. In the first he picks up a ball and involuntarily hits it in the face, as can be seen from the footage of the match, in the act of holding his position before Celtiña Tapia’s arrival. However, Pizarro López shows him the warning. Seconds later, he hits Iago Aspas with his right foot and accidentally steps on his opponent with his left foot when the game is interrupted. The referee doesn’t see him, but an assistant catches his eye and Gueye is ejected, surprising his teammates and opponents.

At the end of the match, Sevilla’s Fernando left a disturbing thought: “La Liga is one of the best in the world but there is something I don’t understand. The Prime Minister has 28 expulsions, and there are over a hundred. Something is happening, something is not right. Weird, weird.” Describing the expulsions as “two bullshit”, his coach Mendilibar focused on VAR: “Technology has come to the aid, but I think VAR makes it worse for referees.”

Hours later, Sevilla made a stern public statement: “The club has always been and will certainly be respectful of the arbitration team as it knows how complex it is to run the arbitration business, but we cannot share many of the club’s decisions regarding the cards taken by our players which in the long run have seriously damaged us in the competition. One thing that Espanyol supported him, who was fed up with arbitration awards against Luis García after losing to Athletic in his first match: “RCD Espanyol also wants to show Barcelona dispute and concerns about arbitration cases received during the season, and in particular, Before the inequality of arbitration criteria in VAR practice”.

They weren’t the first to do this. Cádiz had already positioned itself on 1 March after a draw with Elche in a match where the Elche goal was offside. The Kadistas “requested the adoption of precautionary measures, including the temporary suspension of League One competition (“LaLiga Santander”)”, something that was denied even though the referee showed his team’s fault when confirming Elche’s goal from an irregular position. Ten days later, Cádiz denounced “the obvious inconsistencies and inconsistencies between the events described in the minutes and the events that actually occurred, with legal implications that must be drawn from the non-existence of the arbitration law”. Minutes of the match against Getafe, written by Hernández Hernández, confirming the version of events reported by the Andalusian team.

Atletico pointed to Madrid

Going a little further was Atlético de Madrid’s advisor, Miguel Ángel Gil Marín, who, after seeing how his team lost to Real Madrid in the Cup, said, “Unfortunate! We always suffer from such actions against this team due to the constant pressure on the refereeing board. It’s unreasonable for a referee to find it so difficult to kick one of their players out of the game. even though the game was clear and open to interpretation, as in our last match on the field, and it was too easy to unfairly kick Ángel Correa yesterday”. The complaint about the favorable treatment coincides with the fact that Atlético has yet to receive a penalty in the League. Something that made Simeone smile when asked, will later ironically reply: “It will be up to us as the referees see fit to point out these situations. There are things that are not positive for us this year and this is one of them” . And all this with the shadow of Enríquez Negreira flying through the air…