Controversy at Real Madrid-Valencia practically from the starting gun. A burst from Camavinga in minute 5 ended with the Frenchman on the ground, after a challenge from behind Samu Castillejo. Alberola Rojas pointed out the infraction, but did not show any warning to the Valencian player. The white team protested, understanding that the action deserved more punishment than a simple foul. A line of argument supported by Iturralde González, arbitration expert for AS and Cadena SER. “If the VAR calls him (Alberola Rojas) and sends him off, Valencia can’t say anything”.
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The Castilian-La Mancha referee, yes, did not receive the notice from the VAR, where Medié Jiménez is located, so he had no option to modify his decision. “It is a stomp very high. I believe that he does not call him because he thinks that it is not with excessive force. But we cannot doubt that it is one of the plays that whatever you do, you can support it ”, completes Iturralde González, consulted by this newspaper. Camavinga hurt, but the game went on.
And practically on the horn of the break, the maximum controversy. Antonio Rüdiger finished off a corner into the back of Mamardashvili’s net, but the focus was placed on a struggle between Benzema and Musah. An action in which the Frenchman touched the face of the Valencian player, who ended up lying down. Alberola Rojas was called by the VAR and, after reviewing the action, canceled the goal. Wrong decision in the opinion of Iturralde González: “I believe that football cannot and does not have to admit plays in slow motion. That’s not a sport. That play, in a corner, the man from Valencia has him half embraced. Benzema strokes, but that’s football”. An Iturralde who insisted shortly after: “I always ask for VAR consistency. If the VAR considers that it is a foul, it must also consider the same in Castillejo’s foul on Camavinga. If you call on one, you have to call on the other. Slow motion is not what happens on the pitch”. Of course, the error is double, since the corner kick is preceded by a foul by Foulquier that is not signaled and this originates the subsequent succession of events…