Monchi did not hesitate to show his vision of the clash between Sevilla and Real Madrid and strongly appreciated the controversial play in which the Sevilla team requested a penalty on Ocampos: “I have no doubts, I do not have to say it and yes you. There is contact and there is a penalty. I don’t have to say. It is a very clear penalty, you have to say it. It’s a clear trip, is the vision of any objective person. It’s a penalty and period. We are not having any luck with the VAR, but in the end everything will balance out ”.
Monchi did not want to excuse the defeat in that action, but he insisted on the importance that it supposed in the crash: “I am not pissed off by the penalty play, it is not new. I am pissed off, but we have not been lucky in both areas and that has penalized us. De Burgos and Sánchez Martínez are good referees, but they have not seen a penalty that every time I see it seems clearer to me“.
In his assessment, he was also asked about Bono and the error that Real Madrid’s 1-1 caused: “Bono gives us so much… We are human and we can make mistakes. We have submitted to Madrid, our first half has been magnificent. At the very least, a tie. We should have had an advantage at halftime ”.