Xavi’stechnician FC Barcelonain the past there was more talk about referees and their decisions, but now Carlo Ancelotti who allowed himself to be infected by the noise surrounding Real Madrid.This has been encouraged, among others, by the club’s official channel, Real Madrid Television, which has been producing videos pointing fingers at certain referees for some time. This confirms that if Barça has “madridit” as the capital claims, Madrid also suffers from “arbitritis”..
Last Saturday, Ancelotti told Real Madrid TV at the Sánchez Pizjuán: “If I say what I think, many matches will fall to me, so I use irony. What I like most is sitting on the bench real Madrid “To avoid suspensions, I don’t say what I think and use irony.” And he warned: “The referee played a good game, a quality game. “He got everything right.”
Xavi sides with Ancelotti on freedom of expression
Real Madrid fans are holding on to a systematic manipulation fabricated by Barça with the ‘Negreira Case’ involving the payment made by Barcelona Football Club to Real Madrid. José María Enriquez Negreira, Between 1994 and 2018, the position of vice president of the Technical Referee Committee was paid 7.3 million euros. This led to the opening of an investigation, which included two complaints that were made public on February 15, 2023 and have now been accepted by judge Joaquin Aguirre.
Ancelotti spoke definitively on this issue Negreira case: “Normally I have confidence in the referees, sometimes more, sometimes less. A slightly special moment in Spanish footballand we all know this. “Until everything becomes clear, there will always be such problems.” Trying to cover up the Spanish referees, he added: “Referees who referee in Europe do not have the pressures of the League.”
However, before the Braga match in the Champions League, he turned to the refereeing issue: “I do not have the freedom of expression to talk about the referees. You know. If I say what I think they will push me away and I don’t want it either. I have no freedom in this sense”. This is where Xavi agrees with the Madrid player: “Ancelotti is right because if you talk about the referees, they will give you a two-match suspension. Madrid felt harmed and filed a complaint. I don’t think about this anymore. You complain and they punish you”.
“VAR is a great tool to help football”
However, the culé coach, who never bites his tongue when it comes to refereeing, also voiced a mea culpa while warning: “We must pay attention to vocabulary referees. There’s a lot of conditioning, that’s football. Naturalness leads you to this. The more natural we are, the better. IThe referees need to come out and explain their decisions. We would humanize them even more. There are no worries inside the locker room.
“The referee will come out and do his job just like us,” he said. The one from Terrasa went further and made the following warning: “The complaint does not lead anywhere, but sometimes it arises spontaneously. You’re angry and feeling hurt, just like in Getafe. We are human and we are angry. “This is normal, but complaints go nowhere.”
The match I mentioned ended in a draw between this season’s league winners Getafe, azulgranas and the culé coach was sent off for his complaints after a game in which he produced a penalty to Araújo, albeit before. in a bouncing ball, Soto Grado points to Gavi’s previous hand after being reviewed by VAR.
And Xavi exploded: “The hand has been invented. Like that. Moreover, they said this at the meeting. There were a few points and one of them was that they understood the coaches. They don’t understand me right now. Another was that they shouldn’t whistle, they had to be very clear. Of course, I can’t see this clearly. Everyone saw this. I didn’t enjoy the meeting the other day anymore. And they would go to VAR less. Why do they go to VAR less? Yes, VAR is a great tool to help make football fairerI do not understand anything”.
Xavi and his ‘rajadas’ against ‘clásico’ referee Gil Manzano
Koç also criticized the Bordalás people’s waste of time. 26 minutes of extra time! Between the two parties: “Today’s atmosphere is shameful. Effective time in football, I’ve already said this a thousand times.. This is ridiculous. Everyone saw this. We are sorry and this is clearly unfair. If this is a product of the League, it is an absolute disgrace. I am very angry. “It’s normal for people not to want to watch football.”
At that time, Xavi, who made a warning without blushing, said, “I’m not talking about the referees.” newspaper archive various ‘rajadas’ against arbitration work. Gil Manzano, the referee of today’s classic, said the following in the league match against Osasuna, where he sent off Lewandowski and Piqué: “We feel damaged. These are very unfair decisions. “I don’t understand them”.
After losing to Inter in the Champions League in Milan, he made the following accusation to the referee: “I am angry, very angry. We don’t understand anything. This is injustice, the referees need to talk and explain because we do not understand anything. You must explain why you are whistling. He didn’t give these to me. I’m very clear that they need to speak up and explain their decisions. Their decisions are decisive and the person who must come out and speak is the referee. And it goes and nothing happens. “We don’t understand that.” And so on a long list.
Criticism from Ancelotti to Champions League refereeing
Ancelotti, on the other hand, has recently focused on the referees in a calmer manner. They will face City in the first leg of the last Champions League semi-final. Condemns referee error in De Bruyne’s goal. “The referee wasn’t very careful. He was out. I’m not saying it, technology is saying it, but they couldn’t control it well. The 1-0 win didn’t change the situation much. The referee wasn’t very careful and gave me the card because I didn’t play.. “The players deserved more cards on the pitch, not me who was out there,” he remarked, pointing at the Portuguese. Arthur Dias.
In a league match against Girona months ago, the Italians made the following warning: Melero Lopez “A penalty was invented. The ball hit my player’s chest, not his hand. And that decision cost us two points.”
So between the half-baked lies of both coaches, because Xavi is talking about the referees even if he says no, and so is Carletto, whether I have freedom of speech or not. this cameclassical‘ in this context two benches are aligned. Blaugrana’s statement of complicity with the Madrid player puts more pressure on the match referee, who will certainly be the protagonist no matter what he does. Or even what not to do.