The CTA denies that the Las Palmas - Real Madrid referee said that Rodrygo's action was an expulsion: "If it were the other way around, you would say it was a very clear red"

Luis Núñez-Villavearán

Updated Monday, January 29, 2024-22:26

There is no week without referee controversy. There is no match where insiders or strangers question the decisions not only of the field referees, but also of the video refereeing. In this hyperconnected world and in a league in which the signal is transmitted with between 18 and 32 cameras, there is no action that escapes this Big Brother.

Real

Madrid

, involved in a great refereeing debate after their match against

Almería

, encountered another controversial play in their last match in Las Palmas.

Rodrygo

and

Álvaro Vallés

have a clash in the first minutes of the match and the Brazilian ends up hitting the yellow goalkeeper in the face. The play was resolved by a yellow card by the field referee,

Soto Grado

, and was not rejudged by the VAR.

Today, DAZN had aired some images in which it seemed that the braid admitted to

Nacho

that he had made a mistake in that decision and responded that the Brazilian's action was: "very clear, it's red." He did it in the subtitles, since the audio was quite defective, especially when the speaker was

Soto Grado

.

A few hours later, the CTA came out with a statement to respond to this video that the network had made a mistake when transcribing the alleged conversation and that what the referee said to the Madrid defender was: "If it were the other way around, you would say it was red." very clear." To which

Nacho

himself responds: "How is it going to be red? But how is it going to be red?" the defender comments.

Dani Carvajal

also enters the conversation

and asks the referee the same question and explains: "

Rodrygo

falls into provocation when the other pushes him, so it's okay to say, 'the other is at the limit', that's it, but the someone else is the one who starts the conflict, right?" To which Soto Grado responds affirmatively.

The match ended with a narrow 1-2 victory for Real Madrid, after the Canary Islands team had taken the lead on the scoreboard. The possible expulsion of

Rodrygo

could have changed the duel, since it occurred in the first minutes, so the yellow fans are outraged not only by the resolution of the play, but also by Dazn's allegedly erroneous revelations.

The referees in the target

The CTA has invited the players from both clubs present at the conversation to confirm, in honor of the truth, the correct version. The establishment itself attacks what it considers "a new maneuver with the sole purpose of putting the refereeing establishment in the target and once again calls on all the active parts of football to engage in a reflection exercise."