It demanded the Cup final, for long stretches of rubber and famine, some chicha.
And nothing like the little theater of that new football in which the refereeing decisions are not only not final, but they change to the beat of the
frame
.
Many times, it is also true, to correct correctly.
The controversy also reached the La Cartuja stadium, with Athletic defender
Iñigo Martínez
as the main protagonist.
It will be difficult to forget the image of Iñigo on his way to the locker room, shouting at everyone who was in his path, and his subsequent restitution.
Estrada Fernández
, the main referee of the match, understood at the beginning that the defender, in addition to committing a penalty on
Portu
, had earned the red card for knocking down the striker without any intention of playing the ball.
Estrada showed him the red one.
Iñigo, with his demons unleashed, got into the locker room while his coach,
Marcelino
, reproached him for the action.
But
Iglesias Villanueva
, the head of the VAR, did not see it so clearly.
He claimed Estrada's attention, not because of the maximum penalty, but because of the motivation of the red one.
The referee ended up going to the monitor, they made Iñigo de la cruz out of the showers, and what was red ended up being yellow.
At least, the center-back could see
Oyarzabal's
goal from the field
from the eleven meters that the Cup awarded to Real Sociedad 34 years later.
A controversial hand
But that was not the only action in which Iñigo Martínez got rid of a good one, because at the dawn of the second act Estrada had already sensed that he could give him a penalty by hand.
The center-back was going to a center from Oyarzabal when, in full swing, the ball hit his left elbow.
Estrada whistled without really knowing what to whistle.
And the VAR, knowing before a problem of aúpa, chose not to get into trouble.
He admitted the infringement of the hand.
But he took the foul out of the area, without any of the images shown being able to get anyone out of the field of doubt.
Oyarzabal, who ended the night by bursting into tears when remembering his close friends, was explicit in the celebration: "It's the best we could do."
"There are many people that I would have liked to be here. Family and friends who leave in the worst way. It is for everyone."
Iñigo Martínez, a former realist, the footballer who precisely starred in the best Athletic occasion of the night with a right hand with a scent of glory, the last option of his team as a striker, had to live his bitter face.
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