Atletico Madrid supervisor Diego Simeone has claimed rivals Real Madrid persistently benefit from controversial refereeing decisions.
Simeone’s Atletico managed a reputable 1-1 draw on the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday night, although Los Rojiblancos felt aggrieved that they needed to compete for a lot of the second half with ten males.
Angel Correa was despatched off for elbowing Antonio Rudiger within the midriff in an off-ball incident. Jose Gimenez gave Atletico a shock lead quickly afterwards earlier than younger striker Alvaro Rodriguez rescued some extent for Real late on.
Speaking to DAZN post-match, Simeone was livid with the choice handy Correa a pink card and insisted Real are given preferential therapy by match officers.
“A contact is not a blow. Football is a physical game. If I’m not mistaken, Rudiger measures 1.94m and if it was apparently such a brutal blow, it would have left him sitting down, but he immediately gets up,” Simeone mentioned.
“It may be a yellow [card] but taking a player out for that, there would be no players left on the field.
“It’s the identical story. It is regular, and it has change into regular [refereeing favouring Madrid] and that’s not proper and it could be good if we might all compete in the identical method.”
Referring to an incident involving Real’s Dani Ceballos in a earlier loss, Simeone added: “In the Copa del Rey, they might have despatched off Dani Ceballos for a foul that was a pink. Today, Angel’s foul they noticed it that method. You have all seen it, there are issues that are very clear.
“[VAR] can go either way, sometimes in your favour, sometimes against you. However, every time we come here [to the Bernabeu], it goes against us.”