Going down in Scotland’s 1-0 win cost Pedro Porro his place at half-time. Luis de la Fuente replaced him with Carvajal despite the fact that the Tottenham winger was giving depth in attack and even caused a yellow card to Robertson, in a play in which a kind of elbow to the Extremaduran footballer can be seen. But both the Scottish footballers, who protested angrily to the referee, and The British press charged Porro for considering that he exaggerated his reaction.
Michal Stewart, a commentator on Viaplay, was blunt. “Porro goes down, but there’s nothing close enough to the face. It is shameful”. As Leanne Crichton, from the BBC: “Andy Robertson pushes him, but there is no contact on his face. He has fallen rolling clutching his face as if he had been punched. There is minimal contact at best, it is a shame”.
Stewart, by the way, also charged against Joselu for simulating a penalty, in his opinion: “Another embarrassing thing. Joselu is thrown into the air. The first reaction when seeing him is that he throws himself away and the repetition confirms it ”. The Espanyol striker, replaced in the final stretch of the match by Borja Iglesias, also angrily protested several referee decisions.
