Cristiano Ronaldo’s controversial gesture against referee Wilmar Roldán – La Tercera

The South American judges continue to bother Cristiano Ronaldo. Now, referee Wilmar Roldán had to face the Portuguese striker’s claims in the middle of Al Hilal’s 3-0 win over Al Nassr.

The classic between both teams, within the framework of the 15th round of the Saudi Arabian League, the judge in charge of directing the actions was the Colombian. However, A series of actions in the match not only marked Roldán’s performance, but also showed again the anger of the Portuguese who, despite his gestures, was not sanctioned..

The play in question occurred in the 73rd minute. At that time, Al Nassr created constant danger in order to try to achieve parity when they were down 1-0 on the scoreboard. At that moment Sadio Mané gave a high pass to CR7. The former Real Madrid connected first and overcame the rival goalkeeper’s resistance.

Despite this, Roldán, after the linesman’s warning, chose to annul the play due to offside. The Portuguese was not satisfied with this situation and, once the VAR confirmed it, Ronaldo even tried to prevent the resumption of the match..

Of course the annoyance grew much more. Especially in the 80th minute. At that moment, in the dispute for a ball in the area, the Portuguese scorer fell and looked at the judge waiting for him to take the penalty. However, the payment did not come, since Roldán assured that the action was clean. Thus, amidst a laugh of disbelief, he made a gesture with his right hand as if the judge had been bribed, hitting the palm of his other hand..

In the end, Al Hilal won with goals from Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and a double in the final minutes from Aleksandar Mitrovic. In this way, Al Halil reached 41 points and was seven units ahead of Al Nassr.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s discomfort with the referees who direct the Saudi Arabian League is not something new. Even He had a run-in with the Chilean referee Piero Maza a few weeks ago.

This happened in the match between Al Nassr and Al Errifaq, for the King Cup. The disagreements between both parties started early. In the 12′ there were already discussions about a play that the European considered a foul, but Maza didn’t think so and he ended up being confronted by the Portuguese.

Of course, it wasn’t the only thing, since at the end of the first half he disallowed a goal from Al Nassr for offside and also sent off Anderson Tallisca, the Portuguese’s teammate, for hitting an opponent. All this history only managed to increase the anger of the world football megastar.

The climax of this conflict occurred in the 56th minute. At that moment the disagreement between Ronaldo and Maza was such that the footballer approached the fourth judge. There, taking advantage of the proximity of the television cameras, CR7 made the gesture that will surely remain marked as one of the greatest affronts that Maza has suffered in his career: he asked to be changed in full view and patience of everyone..

This fact was not noticed by Maza and Cristiano Ronaldo was able to play the rest of the match that ended in favor of Al Nassr 1-0 with the score from Sadio Mané.