On Saturday, Actual Madrid suffered their first La Liga lack of 2025 as they fell to a 1-0 defeat towards Espanyol on the Stage Entrance Stadium. Nevertheless, the way of the defeat was controversial, with the league leaders livid with the choice to not ship off Carlos Romero, who went on to attain the profitable aim, on Kylian Mbappe.
Carlo Ancelotti described the choice of on-field referee Alejandro Muniz Ruiz and VAR as “inexplicable”, whereas Actual Madrid TV have gone one step additional by furiously slamming these concerned (through Diario AS).
“It’s an aggression by which he can burst the participant, it’s regrettable. That is what Madrid need to put up with on this filthy Negreira league. If this have been the opposite method round, open all of the entrance pages and the media. Rafael Louzan (Spanish Soccer Federation president), who has simply arrived, has to depart now. He is aware of what’s there and he has given absolute energy to Medina Cantalejo, who’s the direct inheritor of Negreira.”
RMTV additionally hit out on the choice to disallow Vinicius Junior’s aim within the first half, which was chalked off for a foul by Mbappe within the build-up.
“It’s a completely legitimate aim, they create the annulment. The Espanyol defender hangs on Mbappe, doesn’t whistle the penalty and on high of that disallows the aim. Mbappe simply desires to do away with the defender, nothing extra.”
RMTV concluded their rant with a sarcastic level to these larger up the meals chain in Spanish soccer.
“The refereeing is shameful, in the present day could be very severe. Congratulations to the executors of Medina Cantalejo’s plan, they’re his praetorian guard. They’ve achieved the clear goal of stopping Actual Madrid from profitable. We’ve been placing up with the identical factor for a few years.”
Finally, it’s a disappointing end result for Actual Madrid, who will really feel that they need to have gained the match regardless of whether or not Romero was despatched off. That they had the probabilities, however they didn’t take them.