""Congratulations to Atletico on reaching the semi-finals, but that doesn't stop me from criticising the refereeing and VAR in yesterday's match, which was a disgrace. What they have done to us is intolerable. In the first leg, they didn't award us a penalty that was a clear-cut case, and they also sent off one of our players (Pau Cubarsi) when it was only a yellow card.""
""It's been a tie in which the refereeing decisions have really hurt us. The same thing happened in the second leg. They sent off one of our players (Eric Garcia) when Kounde could easily have reached the ball, so Eric wasn't the last man. The referee showed a yellow card, which was the correct decision, but VAR made him change his mind. Another wrong decision.""
Joan Laporta expressed his frustration over refereeing errors that he believes influenced Barcelona's elimination from the Champions League by Atletico Madrid. He acknowledged Atletico's qualification but criticized the officiating, particularly VAR decisions that he deemed unjust. Laporta highlighted specific incidents, including a missed penalty and a controversial red card, asserting that these decisions formed a pattern of injustice throughout both legs of the quarter-final. He emphasized that the refereeing decisions significantly impacted the outcome of the matches.
Read at Barca Universal
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