José Mendilibar and Xavi Hernández during Barça-Sevilla

HOT CROSSING BETWEEN THE COACHES

Mendilibar blamed Xavi for his protests to the referee

Published:2/10/2023 - 23:40h

Updated:2/10/2023 - 23:40h

José Luis Mendilibar and Xavi Hernández had an encounter during FC Barcelona-Sevilla on Friday in Montjuïc. In the middle of the match, the one from Zaldibar confronted the Egarense for his alleged impunity in regards to arbitration claims

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The FC Barcelona-Seville of the day 8 of LaLiga was a party of high voltage. In total, the referee Miguel Ángel Ortiz Arias sanctioned 26 infringements (11 culés and 15 Andalusians), with a balance of two admonished by the venues and three by the nervionenses. The catchwords of José Luis Mendilivar were reiterated against the referee's decisions and, in one of them, finish crossing with Xavi Hernández in a hot verbal exchange.

''If I speak what speak you, have thrown me does half hour..." It said the one of Zaldibar to the egarense. "No, man no. What say uncle?", it answered him Xavi. "I say it to you I, already say you that yes", aseveró Mendilibar while it gave some steps to his bench. At the end, the crossing remained here, as the filtered by the cameras of 'Movistar+' in his space 'The Day Afterwards'.

Xavi already has suffered the rigour of the Spanish arbitration this season

In spite of the criticisms of Mendilibar, the true is that the one of Terrassa has not been, neither much less, impune to the rigour of the Spanish arbitration this season. In the day 1, the technician culé was expelled by his catchwords to the referee César Soto Degree during the Getafe-Barça (0-0). The decisions of the main desquiciaron to all the technical body and the first trainer finish in the terracing.

"If this party is the product Ties, is an absolute shame. I understand that the people do not see the football", said Xavi after the party in the Coliseo Alfonso Pérez. This cost him a sanction of two parties. "I have said him to the referee that were allowing a lot of faults to the Getafe and to us no and therefore it has expelled me", explained the egarense. At the end, the controversies are to the order of each day and any trainer is to save, although the vara is different when it treats , this yes, of the Real Madrid.

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