It was like a crater in the middle of the game. Nothing that had happened up to that point mattered and, of course, nothing that happened afterward. The penalty of Lunin about Swedberg It marked the future of the tie in a way that had not happened in Spanish football for a long time. Especially because, as will be well known by now, the play ended in a goal – a great goal – by Mbappe which, evidently, should not have gone up on the scoreboard.
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And then the action can be analyzed from different points of view, the intensity of the contact can be measured and even whether the size of the Swedish player’s boot was regulatory or not, but once the facts are known, the culprits will have to be pointed out.
The first, Munuera Huntsman who was, paradoxically, the one who saw the action best and the one who decided that it was not a penalty. For this reason, he will not appear – or at least not for a while – in Real Madrid Television videos nor will he be harassed by the white stands. Neither Hernandez Hernandezin the VAR, which also had its weight in the play by choosing not to notify the main referee.
Both, therefore, invited one more round of Cup to the real Madrid that, like all big teams, turns its speech depending on which side the refereeing decisions come from. Because yes, it is very difficult to imagine that this play, with the same outcome, would have occurred against the whites but, if so, what seems impossible is to gauge to what extent the complaints would have been heard. The hours of videos and paragraphs of ink that would have arisen as a result of all this.
A Bernabéu of emotions
With all this, the Bernabeu It was a real hive of emotions this Thursday night. He went through them all in 120 minutes. First, the anger at his players for the 2-5 draw against Arabia, then the joy of the goals and, finally, the nervousness of extra time. It ended, yes, with the relief of the pass.
Even so, it seems that he has chosen his ‘culprits’ for all this. Tchouaméniwithout a doubt, is one of them and was whistled throughout the game and another is Ancelottiwho cannot be forgiven for the fact that the team, already in the second part of the season, still does not have a clear idea of the game and trusts everything to the epic of the shirt. This time, with favors involved, the catastrophe was avoided. Let’s see what happens in the next episode.