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FC Barcelona did not win their first La Liga recreation of 2025 as they have been held to a 1-1 draw by Getafe on Saturday at Coliseum Alfonso Perez.
However the match was not with out its justifiable share of controversies, as Alejandro Balde was focused by racist slurs whereas Barça president Joan Laporta was additionally hit with offensive chants by opposition followers.
There was controversy on the sector as nicely, as Barcelona have been denied a transparent penalty within the 81st minute when Christantus Uche dragged Jules Kounde down contained in the field.
The foul, which concerned Uche grabbing Kounde with each arms, was blatant, but referee Gonzalez Fuertes selected to disregard it, and the VAR didn’t alert him to the clear mistake.
Consultants say it was a penalty
Former referee turned pundit, Iturralde Gonzalez, talking on SER, expressed his perception that it was certainly a penalty: “For me, it’s a penalty as a result of he grabs him.”
Pedro Martin, the referee commentator for COPE, additionally agreed, stating: “There’s a seize, and it’s a pretty clear penalty.”
On Esport 3, former referee Xavier Estrada Fernandez was much more decisive: “It’s an apparent penalty, and I don’t perceive why González Fuertes didn’t sign it, nor why the VAR didn’t intervene.”
Fernandez additional clarified that the query of whether or not Kounde would have reached the ball didn’t change the truth that it was a penalty.
Kounde had a penalty shout denied. (Photograph by Angel Martinez/Getty Pictures)
Some consultants have speculated that the explanation for the dearth of VAR intervention could lie within the nature of the foul.
Iturralde defined: “I disagree, however that is the kind of seize that the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) doesn’t need the VAR to intervene on.”
Past the opinions of refereeing consultants, commentators from each radio and tv agreed that it was a transparent penalty.
Paco Gonzalez, from COPE, was candid: “I might love to listen to the audio of what they stated to Gonzalez Fuertes concerning the incident between Balde and the Getafe participant. I might pay cash to listen to it. He will need to have requested what occurred there, as I didn’t see it.”
Apart from the hostile environment and the racist abuse directed at Balde, one other troubling side of the Getafe-Barça match is the truth that the official liable for evaluating Gonzalez Fuertes’ efficiency is Yolanda Parga, who’s married to Megia Davila, an worker of Actual Madrid.
Xavier Estrada Fernandez described this as “a blatant battle of curiosity,” a sentiment echoed by referee analyst Joan Fabregas, who labelled it “an outrageous battle of curiosity and a whole farce.”
Supply: SPORT
