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The coach of FC Barcelona, ​​Ernesto Valverde , has assured that the VAR will not end the controversy in football, after the two penalties claimed by Real Madrid in the Classic on Wednesday, and has predicted that in 2020 it will remain the same , while he is suspicious of the visit of an Alavés who has put Barça in trouble at Camp Nou before.

" The VAR is not going to end the controversy , which is linked to football because football gives a lot of itself. So many gatherings, that's how it is. We sometimes forget that the VAR is there to help, but the referee is the Referee. I have the feeling that 2020 will remain the same, "he said at a press conference.

Valverde declined to assess the formal complaint of Real Madrid regarding the two penalties they claim, both on Raphael Varane , and attributes those complaints to how much a "Classic" gives of itself.

"The Classic gives a lot of himself, this year look what he has given himself, two months playing, and then he also gives a lot of himself. It's normal to talk about this, but I'm not interested because we don't fix anything , the controversy will continue to exist, "he reiterated.

In addition, he believes that if Real Madrid now complains, as Barça complained about what happened in San Sebastián , next week will be another. "Next week there will be another team, the previous ones have been other teams, there will still be things like that because nobody is infallible. Everything is subject to the judgment of a judge," he said.

At the sports level, the Classic recognized that Real Madrid dominated the game. "We created the clearest occasions, but there were times when we dominated the game based on lateral centers, strategy. Everything was raised in the high pressure they made and what it entailed later," he argued.

"We always take a good picture of us, regardless of what we would like to improve. There are matches that are better, others that are not, but we have a very high demand. For the environment to be happy we have to be clearly superior to the contrary, sometimes we do it, sometimes we don't, "he valued complaints about the culé fan.

In this sense, about not dominating with authority in LaLiga Santander as in previous years, he tried again to normalize the situation. "It's going to be a tough season, as they all have been . This year we don't have the advantage we have had the previous two years, that's true, but we're in a good position," he said.

"When it is decided everything is when spring is coming, to see if we are able to achieve it. We would like to always go ahead, that the opponents were not strong, this year we have punctured and the rivals also and we are all more evenly matched," he concluded .

In addition, Valverde does not look at the winter market to try to reinforce the team, although he also does not think about opening the doors to anyone. " I'm not thinking about that, I don't think about reinforcements but about the players I have. I count on them and I don't expect any modification. I'm the coach, and with those of us here, we have to get ahead," he said.

As for Saturday's game at home against Alavés , he believes that although the Basques are not in good time they are a dangerous team. "He has two strikers that will mark the style and the way he plays. It is true that he is not in a very good run of results, the last years have always complicated our lives here, it has cost us to win," he recalled.

"We have had a lost game, it is a team that defends itself well, it will try to go out to counterattack, with a high pressure. It is the last game of the year, we play it at home, and we want to leave with a good taste in the mouth," be sincere.

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