The Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) has come to pass the press conference that its president, Velasco Carballo, gave this Tuesday in the brought to the fore the play between Lemar and Capoue where the Frenchman from Atlético, trying to get around the Villarreal player, hits him with his elbow in the face. But Velasco Carballo affirmed that the Atlético player should have been sent off, although later in The spar He explained that he had been misunderstood. For this reason, the CTA has issued the following statement:
“Before various information appeared in the media, the RFEF Technical Committee of Referees wishes to clarify that during the press conference held by its President yesterday, he repeatedly stated with absolute resounding that, as is the usual rule in all appearances, he was not going to pronounce about no specific play of any particular party.
When answering a question about an action in the match played last weekend between Villarreal C.F. SAD and Club Atlético de Madrid SAD, used the question to didactically explain that in this “type of play” where the VAR and the referee on the field of play have different opinions, the CTA must finally clarify to the referees in a private internal meeting what is the opinion of the Technical Commission.
Despite the fact that yesterday the President of the CTA already clarified this issue in different media, The RFEF wants to state again that, in no case was it referring to the particular play of that match, but that it was making a mere didactic explanation of a “type of play”.
Atlético de Madrid, together with Miguel Ángel Gil Marín, CEO of the club, stated this Wednesday that the “public comments” of Carlos Velasco Carballo, president of the Technical Committee of Referees, on Thomas Lemar's action against Villarreal and if it should have been a red card, “They are very dangerous, because they condition the decisions of the referees” who must referee the rojiblanco team.