2023-08-14 00:36:29
BarcelonaXavi Hernández did not bite his tongue after Barça’s draw with Getafe, a match conditioned by the performance of the referee, Cesar Soto Grado, who did not point out a penalty favorable to the Blaugrana in stoppage time despite reviewing the action in the VAR. “If this is the product that the League sells, it’s a shame,” said the player.
The Blaugrana coach has repeated the speech, indignant, to the various media. Although his posture was calm, the words were forceful, and he repeated them bluntly both on DAZN, as well as on TV3, and in the press room of the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez. “If we sell the League product with this match, it’s sad. The referee has allowed too much, the match has gone completely out of his hands. Everyone has seen it,” he said at the outset, before adding the adjective shameful in relation to the performance of the member of La Rioja.
“I didn’t like the meeting we had with the referees. They said they would go to the VAR less, and I don’t understand why. They said they would understand the coaches more, who know we are under tension, and in the first change I they expel. I only told the referee that he was allowing too much,” said Xavi.
Xavi complains about the penalty that the referee did not indicate for the “invented hands” on Gavi
Not only that, he also said that, in the penalty that Cesar Soto Grado went to review in the VAR and subsequently did not concede, “Gavi’s hands were invented”. Statements that, due to their content, could cost you an extra penalty. Because of the expulsion, with a straight red, Xavi will already be two games without sitting on the bench.
Xavi was not the only player outraged by the referee. Frenkie de Jong also had his say. In this case, on added time: “Nine extra minutes might sound like a lot, but in the second half alone they lost 25 or 30, which is a shame.”
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