"I find it curious that people are talking about the referees from Thursday's game. I think that should be the least relevant thing. In the other day's match, there is only one action that is being questioned, which is an offside (in the goal that would have made it 4-1 in favour of Barcelona), and offsides, nowadays, are checked technologically. It is objective and not open to interpretation."
"If it's offside, there's no such thing as slightly offside. It either is, or it isn't. The same thing happened to us last Sunday (against Betis, with a goal by Antoine Griezmann), when we were also called offside by a very small margin. If it's close, it's offside."
Mateu Alemany, formerly Barcelona's sporting director and now Atletico Madrid's sporting director, reacted to Barcelona's 0-4 Copa del Rey semi-final first-leg defeat. He expressed surprise that refereeing decisions have become a central focus after such a heavy loss and argued that refereeing should be a secondary concern. Alemany identified a single disputed action—the disallowed Barcelona goal ruled offside—and emphasized that modern offside rulings are checked by technology and are objective. He insisted offsides are binary, cited a marginal offside involving Griezmann against Betis, and noted Barcelona filed a formal complaint with the RFEF and the referees' committee.
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