2023-08-14 00:59:09
Barcelona could only draw against Getafe at the Coliseum (0-0) in a very rough game that Xavi complained about a lot, first at the DAZN microphones and then at a press conference. He was sent off for protesting to the fourth referee a possible foul by Djené on Abde, and on the field it was seen that after the red card he was asking. “But what have I told you?” Later he himself answered: “I told him that he was allowing many fouls, and we weren’t, and that’s why he sent me off. The other day we had a meeting with the referees and the first change in the regulations they told us that they were going to understand more the coaches, that we were more tense, that they understood that we were competing and they weren’t”, said Xavi, and at a press conference he added: “They told us that they were going to understand the coaches and they didn’t understand me”.
The controversial final action
The game ended with a big row because the referee Soto Grado went to review a possible penalty against Araujo for a kick from Iglesias, but in the previous play there is a possible handball from Gavi, which is what he pointed out. “I don’t see a hand anywhere. It’s not clear, so they also said that if they weren’t clear hands they weren’t going to whistle them, and they have whistled it… Everything happens the other way around. I didn’t like the meeting anymore the other day with the referees, I didn’t like it and I didn’t like it today. I don’t know what’s happening”, the coach complained, and later added: “For me the hand is invented. The hand is invented”.
Also in reference to the visit of the referees to the VAR, Xavi explained that in that meeting they were told that they were going to consult him less: “They told us that they would not go to the VAR as much; which surprises me because the VAR is essential for justice in football. Why are they going to go less to the VAR? That, and that they would understand the coaches and they sent me off, and that the hands that were not clear were not going to whistle and Gavi’s is not clear. I think that It has been a great injustice and we cannot remain silent because the whole world has seen it”.
extra time
The game was also a reflection of another of the new football regulations, in relation to added times, which will be longer. In the first part of the Coliseum, ten minutes were added and in the second, nine. “This is another shame for me. Effective time now and it’s over with all this. I’ve already said it thousands of times: effective time in football, we’re making a fool of ourselves”.
Regarding Raphinha’s expulsion, the coach commented: “Raphinha made a mistake, but many things had happened before. [en referencia al juego duro del Getafe] and the referee had not controlled the game, it is evidence. It is my feeling and my opinion”. The conclusion of all this for Xavi was in the direction of Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga: “If we sell the LaLiga product and then we have this… If this is what we want to sell, the product is a shame. Today I would say this to Tebas, it hasn’t been practically a match, it’s normal for people not to watch football.”
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