Messi had already questioned the level of arbitration of Mateu Lahoz

The party of the date 15 of LaLiga between the FC Barcelona and the RCD Espanyol, that has sealed with a tie to a goal by side in the Spotify Camp Nou, has been marked by a new controversial referee's performance by part of Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz, the one who already came to star a similar episode in the Glass of the World with the controversial crash between Argentina and Low Countries in the quarter-finals.

In that crash broke the record of yellow cards with a total of 18, surpassing those that showed the Russian Valentin Ivanov in the clash between Portugal and Low Countries in the eighth of final of Germany 2006, where finished showing 16 yellow and four red in the known 'Battle of Nuremberg'. Now, it is the Valencian the one who has on himself this at all desirable honour in the history of the tournament.

His performance was strongly questioned by Lionel Messi, the one who after the commitment ensured that Mateu Lahoz did not have the level to direct parties of so high intensity: "The people saw what was, the FIFA can not put a referee like this for this level of parties. You can not be sincere, can not say what think. Had fear before the party because we knew what was. It was not to the height of the party".

But no alone Messi pronounced against of the performance of the Valencian, also the Argentinian goalkeeper Emiliano 'Dibu' Martínez issued criticisms on his exert during the commitment, so much by his controversial decisions as by his deal to the players: "it Gave ten minutes, wanted that us empatasen. The worst referee of the Glass, of far. It is a madness this referee, an arrogant, say him something and speaks you bad…".

The cards of Mateu in the derbi

In the party that confronted to the Barça and to the Espanyol were 15 the yellow cardboards showed, including two expulsions, one of them to Jordi Alba by double caution owing to a protest to one of the decisions of the referee. The left side will lose the crash in the Cívitas Metropolitan in front of the Athletic of Madrid of the day 16, by what Xavi Hernández will have to resort to the services of Marcos Alonso or Alejandro Balde.