🤬 Shame: Laporta blasts the refereeing and lodges a complaint

🤬 Shame: Laporta blasts the refereeing and lodges a complaint

Joan Laporta has described the refereeing in Atlético de Madrid-Barcelona, which ended with the blaugrana side’s elimination in the Champions League quarter-finals, as a “disgrace.”

The newly elected Barça president was visibly angry about what happened during his visit to the Conde de Godó tennis trophy.

Joan Laporta: “It is unacceptable”

“I want to congratulate Atlético de Madrid on reaching the semi-finals, but that does not change the fact that yesterday’s refereeing, both from the referee and VAR, was a disgrace. What they have done to us is intolerable. In the first leg, they already failed to give us a clear penalty, and on top of that they sent off one of our players when it should have been a yellow card because Giuliano did not have the ball under control. The referee made the right call, but VAR made him change it to a red card that harmed us a lot.

The refereeing decisions have hurt us badly, and in the return leg it was more of the same. Koundé could have clearly reached the ball, Eric was not the last man. The referee gave a yellow card and VAR made him change it again. Ferran’s goal was a goal, the penalty on Olmo was a penalty, the assault on Fermín is intolerable. They split open part of his lip. Not even a card. It is unacceptable. We have lodged a complaint and will ask for further explanations,” Laporta said.

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