Actual Madrid and Atletico Madrid performed out one other enthralling encounter on Saturday, as they drew 1-1 on the Santiago Bernabeu. As anticipated, there was additionally a good quantity of controversial moments, with two particularly grabbing the headlines.
The primary flashpoint occurred halfway by the primary half. Upon contesting for a ball, Atleti midfielder Pablo Barrios had his ankle stood on by Actual Madrid counterpart Dani Ceballos, who was proven a yellow card for the infringement by referee Cesar Soto Grado.
Nonetheless, ex-referee Eduardo Iturralde Gonzalez instructed Cadena SER (through Diario AS) that he believes this name was improper, and that Actual Madrid ought to have been lowered to 10 males.
“It’s a purple card, as a result of Ceballos doesn’t go to the ball. He’s going to step on him clearly and turns his proper leg to step. For me, VAR ought to have intervened as a result of it’s a purple card.”
Iturralde Gonzalez additionally spoke on the choice to award a penalty to Atletico Madrid, which led to Julian Alvarez opening the scoring. On this event, he believes that Soto Grado made the right resolution.
“It’s a penalty. The CTA, which is the one which dictates the referee’s standards, says that stepping on an opponent inside the world in a dispute for the ball is a penalty. A number of hours in the past, Athletic’s 1-0 (towards Girona) got here due to one other stomp.
“Right here we can not discuss a residual penalty, since resulting from that stomp the Atletico participant can not proceed within the attacking section. The ball was nonetheless inside the world and within the possession of Simeone’s crew and after that stomp you allow the participant with no likelihood of ending.”
On this foundation, Atletico Madrid can maybe depend themselves unfortunate that they didn’t have a person benefit for the overwhelming majority of proceedings on the Bernabeu. Nonetheless, they are going to be happy with the end result, the place Actual Madrid will in all probability take into account it to be two factors dropped.