The arbitration file contains the insult that the team manager gave to the referee; Rakitic’s anger and Mendilibar’s opinion.
Girona stormed Nervión on Saturday night, taking victory from a Sevilla side who have lost their three games of the season. The Catalan side won 1-2 to take their second win in a row, but things could have turned out differently if VAR had not called Gil Manzano to review the penalty awarded by the referee at the end of the game.
The Sevilla team He was unlucky in a second half where everything happened to him: an authentic Ivan Rakitic goal was disallowed for offside and Gil Manzano decided (after VAR review) to withdraw a penalty he had signaled for a possible David. Hand from López after a direct free kick from Rakitic himself. Gil Manzano retracted his decision, signaling that David López’s hand was not intended to whistle a penalty, prompting a huge whistle from Sánchez Pizjuán. And, of course, the anger of the protagonists after the union.
In fact, after Girona’s final victory, the match’s referee reflected in the minutes an insult from Sevilla’s sporting director, Víctor Orta, blaming Gil Manzano for the action that saw the maximum penalty overturned. “When the game was over and in the tunnel, the sports director of Sevilla CF, Mr. Víctor Orta, accompanied us on this tour and addressed us in the following terms: “If you whistled it, why are you going to see it ? If you whistled, why are you going to see it, if you whistled, why are you going to see, then you’re an asshole,” the arbitration law reflects.
It wasn’t just Víctor Orta who was angry with the referee’s decision in the possible penalty kick. Jose Luis Mendilibar, the Sevilla coach, said at a press conference: “What I don’t understand is that a penalty kick that you see so clearly and that you whistle so quickly that you then let the images mislead you, I don’t” I know it doesn’t. The VAR is here to help, they say, so keep helping. But I don’t understand how you can come back on a penalty that whistles so quickly. We were not lucky in that respect and that is why we lost the game”.
Even Ivan Rakitic showed his anger after the game: “Because we recorded so much, I would like the referees to come here and explain what they are doing. It seems to me that the umpires, after all the years they have been here, do not understand the game and we are joking. Today here, tomorrow there. I do not understand”.
Source: Goal