yessituation tragic the one that Fuenlabrada had to live this Saturday against Ponferradina. The azulones won 2-0 in the 88th minute, but ended up losing 2-3 in added time, after a heart-stopping last few minutes in which the ‘kiriko’ coach, José Ramón Sandoval, as well as the local goalkeeper, ended up expelled for protesting. Javier Belmanwho had saved a penalty that the VAR signaled twenty minutes from the end.
And at the post-match press conference, Sandoval charged harshly against the arbitration of the Catalan Rubn valos Barrera, the referee of the match. “We had the game under control, but we knew that any action that was at the limit was going to fall against us. It’s incredible that, when some of us are playing so much… there are others on the pitch as if nothing was happening”, the technician referred.
“In the 2-2 play, Mikel Agu hits the ball. There is no foul. But they could only score goals that way. The penalty is very fair, and they had to look at it a thousand times from the VAR. We had the game checked. If we lose, it could only be because what has happened will happenI added.
We had the game under control, but we knew that any action that was at the limit was going to fall against us. It is incredible that, when some of us are playing so much… there are others on the pitch as if nothing were happening
Also, the trainer went further. “You have to think about this in the world of football. My second coach gets up to give me an indication and the fourth referee is calling his attention all the time. But then, they score the third goal and forty people pass in front of us saying: ‘Your mother’s shell, line!’… and they expel us, instead of them. I have never seen this in my life. In his second goal there are three offside coughs. So you can not play a game. I don’t know if Fuenlabrada has been bothering us since Corua. But today was our opportunity to start, and they have stepped on us, “added the coach.
Valos Barrera in Fuenla-Mirands on 2019-20
Apart from that, Sandoval wanted to remember that Ávalos Barrera already made a mistake a year and a half ago, in a meeting between Fuenla and Mirands andn the Fernando Torres that ended 2-2 on July 4, 2020. “That day, Path Ciss sent us off in the 20th minute, he scored two goals that were later rectified by VAR, he took another two from us, and the VAR rectified a penalty. And then, as time went by, we got together, we talked about that day and he told me: ‘You have to forgive me, because that game was broken, I wasn’t physically well, and I had a lot of mistakes.’ But nothing happened to him. To us yes. The referee can be wrong and we can be wrong. But, if we make a mistake, we penalize ourselves ourselves. The rest cannot happen.”
In that sense, the coach delved into his message. “I ask for respect from a team that is very humble, and that he is trying to get out of there by the means they have”, he sentenced, before showing his pessimism regarding the possibility of achieving a permanence that, now I know, seems more impossible than anything else. “It is very difficult, we are realistic. It will be doing something that has never happened. But we are going to go to Amorebieta to give everything.”
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