Before the half hour of the Granada-Madrid game was over, Gil Manzano did not sanction with a direct red a hard action by Darwin Machís on the youth squad Marvin. A dangerous entrance from behind that did not even deserve a yellow for the Extremaduran referee. Iturralde González, referee specialist for the SER and AS, ruled that Cordero Vega, the VAR referee, should have urged Gil Manzano to review the play: “It is expulsion and the VAR has to make him see it.” Without a doubt, the regulation removed the intentionality in the entrances a long time ago. Now it is measured reckless, reckless or rough play. And this action is rough play. ” The truth is that the youth squad had to be substituted, injured, at halftime.
This action only increased the discomfort that exists within Real Madrid with the arbitrations that it is having in this final stretch of the season. “Marvin's leg is a poem”, they summarize from within the entity, in which no one explains that the Granada player did not even see a yellow card or for the VAR to warn of the situation as it was a possible expulsion due to a direct red card. Some images released by Twitter by El Chiringuito give an idea of the hardness of the entrance and the effects it had on the youth squad's leg.
The Madrid squad and the coaching staff begin to believe that there are too strange situations with the arbitrations in this final stretch of the course, although in the face of the gallery they are trying to save the forms in the message transmitted to the media: “I'm not going to get into the controversies. Things should be clear to everyone. The VAR will always help to improve football. The specific plays should be clarified. If the football people have to sit down to say 'go to be like this for everyone always'? I think so ”, Zidane limited himself to saying on the subject while still kicking the penalty called Militao by hand against Sevilla.
If the action of Machís against Marvin had no consequences in the result (but it did for the youth squad, injured until the end of the season with the prejudice that this also means for Raúl's Castilla), the anger of Madrid, who fumes for Marvin It has to do with what has been just after the controversial hand whistled against Militao against Sevilla. In that case, it did cost Madrid two points in the La Liga race, as that match ended in a draw.