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“We are confident that measures will be taken to prevent bullying”

BarcelonaThe end of the Endesa League has risen in temperature. After the defeat in the second game, Real Madrid set up their usual machinery to question the refereeing action. Every white defeat is accompanied by a tug-of-war, an arbitration complaint. The club’s official website described the refereeing as “controversial” and considered Edy Tavares’ personal foul on Cory Higgins “non-existent”.

When the final whistle sounded, Guerschon Yabusele went to look for Emilio Pérez Pizarro. The Real Madrid player was shown a yellow card after 80 minutes for slicing down an opponent. The Catalan fans had to make peace. Far from apologizing, the Frenchman described the match as “incredible” and called for an end to what the white team considers a refereeing chase. Rudy Fernández left the pitch facing the Barça players. Nigel Williams-Goss, who did not play in the final due to injury, questioned the referees’ performance. “The referees have given them the match again … amazing. I don’t get it! Let the teams decide who wins and who loses!”, He wrote on social media. A little less direct was Vincent Poirier. “Déjà-vu,” the pivot released.

Lorenzo Sanz, a former Real Madrid player and son of the former white president, fired at the ACB. “What a shame,” he roared. José Luis Llorente, another former player, seconded the conspiracy theory. “I don’t think I’ve talked about referees in this medium, but today they have insisted on it. No judgment. No success. Sweeping to many places except to the target,” he wrote on Twitter.

The only one who made some sense was Chus Mateo, the Real Madrid interim coach. “We don’t talk about referees. We play basketball. During the game you try to assess with them if their refereeing calls are correct. They are the ones in charge, they assess whether it was a foul or not. It is part of the game. refereeing, we only focus on the third game “, said the coach, who these days occupies the place of Pablo Laso on the bench of the white team.

Josep Cubells: “We are confident that measures will be taken to prevent bullying”


Cubells enters the scene

Barça responded strongly. “We detected moments of great tension, which led to some actions that we saw as an intimidation of the referees of the match. Our surprise is that this was not transcribed in the referee’s report. The referees are fundamental in the development of “We are confident that measures will be taken to prevent these intimidations from happening again in the next few games,” said Josep Cubells, president of Barça’s basketball section.

Although the game of the Barça team is far from its optimum point, Wednesday’s victory has reduced the pessimism that surrounded the Catalan team. “I lived the second game with great satisfaction because it was a victory we deserved and needed. The atmosphere at the Palau was very good and the team was supported in the difficult times. “We got a big win that we needed to be alive in this ACB final,” said Cubells, Joan Laporta’s strongman in the basketball section.

After the first two matches in Barcelona, ​​the final will move to Madrid this Friday (9pm, #Vamos). The referees of the third match will be Carlos Peruga, Benjamín Jiménez and Alberto Sánchez Sixto. “We have played many times against Barça, we have played very different matches, but now it is the most important, a very demanding final in which we have to recover well. Together with our fans, we will give everything, we ask them to come a lot and we will all fight together, it is the only way. We will try to play good basketball and we will fight until the end, “said Ádám Hanga, a Real Madrid player.

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