The Real Madrid continues its particular festival of embarrassments in Spanish football. Since last Saturday, the merengues have not stopped their 'whining' about the tackle by Carlos Romero on Mbappé that was not sanctioned with a red card in their defeat against Espanyol, and after airing several videos on their official television channel, they have taken a further step and have submitted to the RFEF and the CSD, "a formal complaint following the serious refereeing performance at the RCDE Stadium".
In this four-page document, the white entity steps on its own tail by harshly criticizing the refereeing body, which has historically favored them, and claims two incorrect decisions by the officials, in addition to asserting that LaLiga is "adulterated".
"The events that occurred in this match have exceeded any margin of human error or refereeing interpretation. What happened at the RCDE Stadium represents the culmination of a completely discredited refereeing system, in which the decisions against Real Madrid have reached a level of manipulation and adulteration of the competition that can no longer be ignored", the statement begins.
Madrid later highlighted two 'incorrect' sanctions by the referees, the first being "the brutal tackle on Kylian Mbappé, from behind, on the calf and with no possibility of contesting the ball", followed by the "absolutely legal" goal by Vinicius Jr., "which was disallowed for an alleged prior foul by Kylian Mbappé, despite the images showing that in that play, the one who was fouled first, a clear penalty, was our player".
Madrid accuses VAR of manipulating images
Furthermore, the club demanded from the RFEF "the immediate delivery of the VAR audios related to the two key plays of the match", as well as "the conversations that took place among the VAR room members in both plays". "This refereeing scandal is not an isolated case. The Spanish refereeing system is completely tainted and structurally designed to protect itself", the entity explains.
"The serious structural problems of Spanish refereeing have been evident in recent years, with revelations that have highlighted practices incompatible with the transparency and impartiality that should govern the competition", they added.
Finally, the whites accused the VAR of manipulation to harm the team. "The irregularities in the use of VAR against our entity have been substantiated by judicial resolutions, which have evidenced how the images shown to the referees have even been manipulated to induce erroneous decisions against Madrid. This is a recurrent form of action used as a mechanism to harm Real Madrid", they concluded.
It is curious that the only team in the five major leagues with a balance of 10 penalties in favor and 0 against, many of them 'invented' to their benefit, talks about 'manipulation' and 'impartiality' when, for example, the Bernabéu witnessed the 'robbery of the century' against Celta in the Copa del Rey, being just one case among the hundreds of thousands that have been perpetrated against the rivals of a club that only seeks 'justice' in the isolated occasions when the wind does not blow in their favor.