The defeat of Atlético de Madrid is causing ink to flow in Spain, where there is total incomprehension regarding the penalty awarded to LOSC, winner this Wednesday (1-3) in the capital.
The climate was particularly tense this Wednesday, inside the Estadio Metropolitano, following the victory pocketed by LOSC (1-3) over Atlético de Madrid. This concerned the reception staff, the local press, as well as the players in the game. Diego Simeone, who had been sanctioned during the match (73′) by Marco Guida, referee of the match, made the team flinch, even tremble. all the journalists present at the press conference. Angry, he strongly criticized the decisions taken by the refereeing body and in particular the penalty awarded to the Mastiffs, sanction whose origin remains approximate : “There’s nothing!” Why is he whistling?! A hand? There isn’t any! Nobody touched the ball. I hope someone from UEFA finds out and explains to me why the referee was right.”he laughed in front of the media fond of bloodshed.
The Argentinian technician was not the only one to grind his teeth. His faithful goalkeeper, Jan Oblak, also expressed his annoyance a few minutes later, in the mixed zone: “I don’t know what he whistled. He said there was a hand, but we don’t really know what he whistled. Nobody understands and I especially hope that he (the referee) understands itmuttered the Slovenian, nevertheless lucid about the collective performance of the Colchoneros. But we can’t complain about this penalty because we had the opportunities to kill the match.”he concluded for his part.
“It’s a dark night for refereeing”
In Spain, our local colleagues are not kind to Marco Guida and the referees responsible for video assistance. On the other side of the Pyrenees, Mark denounces a penalty “non-existent” When AS evokes a real “joke” during this part. To go even further, Movistar had invited Mateu Lahoz to his set and he too, a veteran of the profession, remained smug: “It is possible that the referee makes a mistake and sees Koke’s hand. But VAR is a tool that should help. The VAR referee had no experience, he didn’t have the opportunity, he wasn’t invited to see it. It’s impossible to explain why he whistled. It’s a dark night for refereeing. VAR was introduced in football for matches like this. We have to try to understand what happened with his three teammates”he castigated at the small skylight.
