Like every LaLiga matchday, the ABC referee, Martinez Montoroanalyzes the controversial plays and the performances of the referees that the competition has given us during the weekend.
The game that everyone is talking about is Madrid – Rayo … . The expulsions of the visiting players and the penalty in favor of the whites were successes of the referee Díaz de Mera. There was also division in added time. Reviewing the medical attention of Álvaro and Ceballos, along with the expulsion of Ciss, it is three minutes minimum. Battle time loss adds an extra minute. Rayo’s goal, another. There are four blocks of changes, where in some cases up to three players are substituted. We can consider that the extension time would be between eight or nine minutes. Therefore, this decision was also correct.
For me, the worst of the day were the disciplinary decisions of Alberola Rojas, not expelling Vanat, for two clear card actions, one of them a red card. However, he left the field without any cardboard.
Also at the Bernabéu, there were too many simulations by Vinicius and Mbappé demanding a foul or penalty, some of them accompanied by their corresponding protest, including gestures. No one was reprimanded for this reason.
Oviedo 1 – 0 Girona
Minute 2: Colombato’s entrance to Vanat., who hits the opponent’s ankle laterally with his studs. It doesn’t even show yellow. For me it was expulsion.
Min. 24: elbow from Vanat to Costas. We can discuss whether it was yellow or red, but what the referee cannot do is not take anything.
Min. 42: goal disallowed against Girona because the ball went over the touchline. Well acted.
In short, bad Alberola Rojas disciplinaryly.
Osasuna 2 – 2 Villarreal
Min. 15: Penalty sanctioned by Galán on Pepe. It blocks him from behind, preventing him from continuing the action. Clear penalty that the referee sanctions.
Min. 40: They ask for a second yellow for Catena for a tackle on Mikautadze. He arrives from behind the forward and hits the Villarreal player’s hip with his knee. It’s a clear foul, but he should have gotten yellow. It would have been the second.
Min. 87: They ask for a penalty for Galán’s handball. It’s a handball, but beforehand there is a push from Oluwaseyi to the Osasuna side. De Burgos acts well and does not sanction a penalty.
Elche 1 – 3 Barcelona
Elche claims penalties in the minute. 17 from Eric to Mendoza by push and in the min. 22 from Bucket on Álvaro for grabbing. In both cases, Muñiz Ruiz does not point out anything. These are insufficient actions to sanction the maximum penalty.
Real Madrid 2 – 1 Rayo Vallecano
Min. 13: Gumbau elbows Guller. Díaz de Mera sanctions the foul, but does not sanction it disciplinaryly. It was an orange card.
Min. 46: ball in dispute between Vinicius and Mendy, the Madrid player claiming that he grabs him to avoid a clear and obvious scoring opportunity. The referee lets it continue. It is a dispute between both.
Min. 47: Mbappé falls in the area and asks for a penalty due to a push from Ratiu. He puts his hands on it, but there is no push. Nothing is whistled correctly.
Min. 54: Madrid ask for a double maximum penalty, first from Mendy to Mbappé, without dispute for the ball, and then from Lejeune to Vinicius. There is nothing at all.
Min. 79: Vinicius clearly dives, trying to deceive the referee. He also protests. However, the referee does not caution him.
Min. 80: Direct red to Pathé Ciss for a very hard tackle, with his studs above Ceballos’s ankle. There is impact. Well the referee sending him off.
Min. 87: Mbappé de Lejeune calls for a penalty. There is nothing, it is dropped. It should have been yellow for simulation.
Min. 90+9: Mendy tries to clear the ball, does not do so and ends up hitting Brahim in the stomach with his knee. It’s a penalty and Díaz de Mera indicates it.
Min. 90+13: Second yellow for Chavarría for pushing Rodrygo off the field.
Betis 2 – 1 Valencia
Min. 11: Sánchez Martínez gives the maximum penalty for Ruibal’s knockdown on Danjuma. For me, contact is insufficient.
Min. 21: penalty for Stomping on Ruibal by Copete. All these actions are being sanctioned, so correct decision.
Athletic Bilbao 1 – 1 Real Sociedad
Min. 64: A penalty is claimed for a handball by Guedes, but it is not sanctioned. It is true that the ball hits his arm, but it comes on the rebound after playing it with his head. Right decision.
Min. 83: Direct red to Brais Méndez for hitting Paredes in the face with his hand while the game was stopped. For me it is yellow, since there is no excessive force, although actions with voluntary touches to the face, even if slight, have been punished with expulsion.
