Sánchez Martínez and Sergio Busquets during the Barça-Sevilla of LaLiga

THE 'SURPRISE' OF THE MATCH

"How bad you are": The phrase that unleashed the arbitration controversy in Barça-Sevilla

Published:4/04/2022 - 12:50h

Updated:4/04/2022 - 17:49h

Although this Sunday's FC Barcelona-Seville match was exempt from serious refereeing controversies, a phrase by Sánchez Martínez in the minutes drew attention and went unnoticed during the match

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The FC Barcelona achieved a key victory this Sunday in front of the Seville, that has served for scalar until the second position of LaLiga Santander, surpassing the conjoint sevillano, although with the same points. The magic of Pedri González was sufficient so that the Barcelona picture tieed up an important triumph that confirms, once again, the big moment of the Barça from the arrival of Xavi Hernández.

The party, compared with other clashes of this day of the domestic championship (Celtic-Madrid or Granada-Ray), did not have big controversial neither referee's decisions that changed the course of the crash. The Seville demanded a possible hand of Ronald Araújo inside the area, but Sánchez Martínez, main referee, determined that the hand of the charrúa was in natural position and went a strike haphazard.

Of rest, went a party 'calm' further of the unexpected yellow that saw Xavi Hernández or the expulsion of a member of the bench of the Seville. However, something that happened unobserved and that surprised in the referee's record of Sánchez Martínez was a quite pejorative sentence that left from the Barcelona bench after the end of the party.

In the same, the murciano related that "finalised the meeting and finding us in the tunnel of changing rooms, a no identified person uniformado with the tracksuit of the F.C. Barcelona directed to my assistant number 1 in the following terms, to voice in cry: "What bad are". Requested the identification to the delegate of local team, not being possible".

The explanation to the yellow of Xavi

Sánchez Martínez was very attentive to the 'game' from the bands. So much Xavi Hernández like Julen Lopetegui were very 'put' in the party and gave indications constantly to his players from the technical zone, but the referee reported that the one of Terrassa 'happened' of the line and therefore it showed a yellow cardboard: "In the minute 55 the technician [Hernández Creus, Xavier] was admonished by the following reason: Formulate observations of technical order to one of my decisions".

In this regard, Xavi did not have a lot that say in room of press. The egarense limited to comment that "I anger me because I am competing. The referees, does not like me speak of them, but they have to understand that they do not compete. They have to be calm. They decide. I trust a lot in his honesty. They would have to speak they. Explain what pitan and what see. The referee of yesterday and the one of today".

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