Iturralde tries to 'portray' Xavi for suggesting a refereeing campaign favorable to Madrid

The hard criticism of Xavi Hernández to the arbitration of LaLiga after the scandalous work of the referee Francisco José Hernández Maeso and the VAR during the Real Madrid-Almería (3-2) did not take in finding answers by part of the Spanish referees. In first in criticising to the egarense by his 'rajada' was Eduardo Iturralde González, ex referee the one who, usually, is very critical with the Real Madrid by the reports that issues in his channel of television,

"Unlucky words, would sign them to you the same Mourinho. Personally, it would ask him this to Xavi. They are the same referees that the past year? Yes. It is the same CTA that the past year? Yes. It is the same Real Madrid? Yes. It is the same Barcelona? Yes. As then, how you won the League?", it said the ex Spanish referee in 'Connection Ties' of 'ACE TV' to answer to Xavi.

In the previous press conference to the duel of quarter-finals of Glass of the King in front of the Athletic of Bilbao, the egarense had said: "I have seen It. If we speak they sanction us... But it has seen it all the world. Already I said in Getafe that there were things that did not square me, that went to be very complicated to win this League. There are things that do not control. It has seen it all the world".

The opinion of Iturralde on the three controversies in favour of the Madrid

On the penalti, the ex referee ensured that "it is clear hand, but for me there is a previous fault and the back is the arm, that has it to the height of the shoulder". Thus, it thinks that the hand did not have to sanction like penalti, as there was a previous fault of Joselu. Instead, yes it gives the 'ok' to the VAR and to the main on the fault sanctioned on Jude Bellingham that cancelled the so much of the 1-3 partial for the Almería.

"The CTA recommends that in this type of played that it was fault and that admonish. Here yes that there is not criterion: here this is what there is", sentenced the Basque. By his part, regarding the goal of Vinicius, Iturralde leaves clear that the action generates him a lot of doubts, because in some takings seems to give him to the balloon with the shoulder and in others with the hand, according to the perspective.

In this sense, argued: "To what goes in the VAR? If the VAR came for 'clear, obvious and self-evident' and is a played that half Spain goes to see that it hits him in the shoulder and half Spain goes to see that it hits him in the arm? As then it is not so clear for anybody", puntualizó the ex Spanish referee, withdrawn in the year 2012 after 14 years in active.