Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid face each other this Saturday (8), in a duel valid for the 23rd Laliga round. Separated by just one point, with Ancelotti’s team in front of Simeone’s team, the Madrid derby won a new ingredient to make the weather even warmer before the match.
The reason for the conflict between the teams? Spanish arbitration.
It all started last Monday (3), when Real Madrid sent a formal letter to the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) criticizing the arbitration performance, away from home.
“What happened in the ‘RCDE Stadium’ represents the height of a completely discredited arbitral system, where decisions against Real Madrid have reached a level of manipulation and adulteration of competition that cannot be ignored,” the club says. “The episodes in this meeting have surpassed any margin of human error or interpretation.”
The fury of the merengue team was directed to two moves of the match. The first was the hard entrance behind side Carlos Romero in the attacker. Romero, even, was responsible for scoring Espanyol’s victory.
The club also complains about 21 minutes of the first half.
The team requested in a note a “structural reform” of the Spanish arbitration system, which accuses of being “flawed”, “corrupt” and “fraudulent”.
The club also complained about the “systematic damage” that has been suffering from Spanish arbitration, whose system would be “addicted and structurally designed to protect itself, with the backing of disciplinary committees and RFEF” in order to maintain a “system classified as fraudulent by ordinary justice itself ”and“ systematically corrupt ”.
Atletico de Madrid rebound
He saw the protest as a rival strategy to press arbitration before the classic. Soto Grado will be responsible for the whistle of the confrontation.
On social networks, the Colchoners mocked the complaints of the meringues. “Basic instructions for derby: physical preparation, pre-game massage, thorough analysis of the rival and use official television [Real Madrid TV]once again, to press the referees, ”said one of the posts.
📚 Basic instructions for the derby
– Atletico de Madrid (@atleti)
In another publication, the team calls for help to RFEF to understand the meanings of verbs to press, frighten, intimidate, coerce, scare, influence and impose.
Friends of, these days are asking us a lot about an issue and we don’t want to make mistakes.
Can you help us with the nuances of the following verbs?:
press,
intimidate,
intimidate,
coerce,
frightening
influence,
impose.Thank you so much!
– Atletico de Madrid (@atleti)
Griezmann is positioned
Antoine Griezmann, Atletico striker, criticized the statements made and blamed presidents, clubs and journalists for pressing the referees.
“I think we need to stop this nonsensewhich is what it means to me. You are, journalists, who will make the biggest excitement. If you don’t say anything and the clubs issue statements that no one talks about, there will not be so much tension to the referees, ”said the biggest scorer in the club’s history.
“No matter who it is, he [árbitro] Go to any stadium for fear of failing, because everyone will be eyeing him. It is not good for the referee to address a match that way. We have to leave them alone, they are already fed up to put up with us on the pitch, imagine outside it […] It’s the fault of everyone, clubs, presidents, journalists… The referees are already tight of this nonsense, ”concluded the Frenchman.
Javier Thebas Cogitates to trigger Real Madrid in court
Javier Thebes, president of Laliga, attacked Real Madrid on Thursday (6) and said Cogita has taken the club to court due to complaints about arbitration.
“They built an exaggerated victimization story that is completely unfounded with, in my opinion, the goal of undermining the competition. It is completely exaggerated. They lost their heads, ”said Thebes.
Real Madrid X Atlético de Madrid
The match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid takes place this Saturday (8), at 17h (from Brasilia), for the 23rd round of the Spanish Championship. The duel will be held at the Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid, Spain.
