BARCELONA – Real Madrid and Barcelona will face Valdebebas on Saturday in a Classic that could mark the end of the League, with Atlético de Madrid as the third protagonist, and five days into the game the atmosphere in Spanish football is already alive. lat in the controversy. Barça’s victory over Valladolid was not only protested by the Valladolid club, but around the Bernabéu came to be considered “a scandal” so it was understood a very favorable refereeing for the Barça club.
“Surely this referee will have a match at the weekend as a prize after today,” former Real Madrid player Roberto Carlos posted on his twitter account in a reaction that multiplied considering that Barça went to have favorable treatment on the part of Jaume Latre, not indicating a penitentiary of Jordi Alba or expelling Óscar Pla that set afire the social networks.
If the press talks were focused on what not a few journalists close to the meringue club described as “a robbery” and a “warning of what awaits Madrid in the Classic”, not even the political class was left in the lurch. apart from that, when the mayor of Valladolid himself, Óscar Puente, burst out with irony stating that “I think the referee had to go into the Barça locker room to throw a tantrum. they win, ”while Ronald Koeman, acknowledging he was“ lucky ”was hopeful that all the controversy that could arise does not condition next Saturday’s refereeing:“ There was a time in the season that we deserved different decisions from the referees. I don’t think moments in today’s game can influence that. “
However, from Barcelona it was warned that during Monday’s match there were other plays to take into account in the overall performance of the referee, such as an aggression against Antoine Griezmann that was not considered or a possible penalty to Sergiño Dest who also was left without a penalty … All this without forgetting old controversies that during the season favored Real Madrid.
It was already reminiscent of the Classic of the first round or victories of the meringue team against Real Sociedad, Real Betis, Granada and Eibar that were not exempt from very controversial plays in favor of Zidane’s team and that, it is stated from of the Barça environment, they do not remember at this time when they could have influenced, and not a little, the classification.