The main newspapers of the European country spoke about the controversial victory. With the exception of one, the majority described the match as “theft.”
Real Madrid lachieved a vital victory against Almería to close the 21st round of La Liga just one point behind Girona with one game less. Although the victory had catapulted the White House to first place, the resounding victory of the team belonging to the City Group against Sevilla caused it to drop to second position. The meeting that Daniel Carvajal closed in an agonizing way was full of controversies and this is how the main newspapers in Spain portrayed it.
The epic celebration of Madrid was marked by three controversial plays. The first occurred at 53′, when Kaiki committed a penalty after touching the ball with his hand. What the majority demanded was a possible previous foul by Joselu against the Brazilian defender. However, the referee reviewed the play and scored the maximum penalty.
Seven minutes later, Sergio Arribas had converted the partial 3-1 for Almería, but, again after a call from the VAR, he made the match referee José Hernández Maeso annul the goal due to an infringement by Dion Lopy on Jude Bellingham in midfield. Finally, Vinicius scored the equalizer and went validated after Hernández reviewed the play and consider that there was no hand of the attacker with a past in Flamengo.
Real Madrid vs. Almería: the compact of the party
The reaction of the Spanish press to Real Madrid’s victory against Almería
The main diary of Madrid, Brandignored these plays and portrayed the agonizing goal of Carvajal on its cover. Accompanied by the phrase “Crazy”the Madrid midfielder portrayed the right back’s crazy celebration. “Penalty, shoulder goal and one disallowed for a very critical Almería,” he sentenced.
In addition, The city’s other major newspaper included the controversial plays in its title. “VAR comeback“titled the Ace newspaper. Furthermore, it included the shocking statement of Xavi: “I already said it was going to be difficult to win this League.”
On the contrary, the most important newspapers in Barcelona They classified the triumph as controversial at least. Sports worldalthough he placed Barcelona’s victory against Betis as the main topic, He did not forget Real Madrid. With one word, he described the feeling of many culés: “Robo”.
In that same line, Sport He expanded further and was just as forceful: “Heist on La Liga!” In addition, he threw another toothpick al Madrid in the title of the Blaugrana team’s triumph: “A great Barca! He doesn’t need the VAR.”
For its part, the newspaper of the region of Catalonia, The Sport, nothing was saved either. The Catalan newspaper described the Merengue victory as “Epoca Scandal at the Bernabéu”.
The newspaper Super Sports of Valencia He highlighted his open stance. The Valencian newspaper remarked that he was a “scandal“in addition to highlighting that “the referees give victory to Madrid”. Finally, he mentioned: “Historic robbery of Almería at the Bernabéu”.
Lastly, theThe Almería media did not let what happened pass. He Almeria Newspaper I affirm that “A humble but proud Almería is attacked at gunpoint at the Bernabéu”. As if that were not enough, the newspaper The Voice of Almeria qualification: “The VAR steals Almería’s dream at the Bernabéu”.
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