The outrage in the Royal Society is very great. Nobody in the txuri-urdin team dressing room understands the reason why Mateu Lahoz has annulled Alexander Isak’s goal, after a wall with Mikel Oyarzabal, who threw a pass over the defense and allowed him to stay alone in front of Diego Lopez. The goal was 0-1 on the scoreboard, overtaking the royalists in a highly contested match, but which by then had only a clear blue and white color. During the attacking play of the Real, the ball hit the Valencian referee, who still saw no reason to stop the game and let the action end, which ended up being the first goal of the match. But in full celebration of the goal, Mateu Lahoz annulled the goal in an incomprehensible way, something that none of the Real Sociedad players understood. It was impossible to understand how, having applied the law of advantage after the ball hit him in his body, he annulled that law of advantage just because it had been Real’s goal.
The players surrounded Mateu Lahoz, who tried to explain himself unsuccessfully, because none of the Real Sociedad players were convinced by his alleged arguments, totally empty of content, as revealed after the match by Mikel Oyarzabal, realistic captain at the RCDE Stadium. “I could say many things. But I will only say that I still have not understood anything, he does not even know what it sounds. He does not give us any logical and coherent explanation. I have asked him six times, and he tells me that he improves the play. But it is not like that. Because Januzaj is behind him. Guevara passes him and the ball hits him, but Janu repeats that he is behind him and I still don’t understand what he’s saying. Maybe now I see the play calm and my opinion changes, but right now I don’t understand nothing and we go pissed off, with a bad body “, says the Eibar, who is not used to assessing the arbitration actions, with which the anger and indignation that are in the txuri-urdin dressing room is better understood.
The feeling that there is is that they have stolen three points, because Mateu Lahoz influences with his controversial decision the result of a match that they ended up losing after being much better and having scored the first goal, which was later annulled when they were he had applied the law of advantage. “It is incomprehensible what has been called. It is outside of all norms and although it has been sealed, it has not been able to give us an argument that conforms to the norm”, they point out from the San Sebastian club itself. The outrage does not stop with the passing of the minutes. Because they insist that the Valencian referee arbitrates the play well at first, correctly applying IFAB rule 9.1, and they do not understand how he later cancels the goal, discarding his correct decision, canceling his own advantage law and not being able to explain consistently make your decision. None of the assumptions that the norm indicates for the “dropped ball” of the norm occurs in the play of the Real. That is what they consider in the realistic wardrobe. In the club, they even criticize the referee’s decision, with the tweet in which they add their chronicle of the match. “Difficult to explain,” they point out.
The three cases in which the ball must go to the ground, be taken out again and for the game are: “promising start of attack, ball goes directly into goal and ball changes possession”. None of the day in this play, with the aggravation that Mateu Lahoz does not see anything punishable at the moment he touches the ball and lets the play continue. Because if he had believed that one of those assumptions occurred, he would have stopped the play instantly. What he has assessed does not conform to the norm and on top of that he had allowed the Real to score a goal, something that is what ends up outraging the realistic club. All this is already controlled in the Real, who feel very annoyed with the refereeing, and they have made it known to the refereeing delegate who was in Cornellá.
Even Imanol Alguacil, the realistic coach, without saying anything, showed his discomfort publicly. “The play of the goal? Ask Mateu Lahoz to see what has whistled”. You cannot say more with less. The outrage is increasing in Real, which because of this play can stay four points behind Real Madrid in the fight for the leadership of the League. It is this type of thing, inexplicable arbitrations such as that of Mateu Lahoz, which feed the doubts among San Sebastian fans as to whether there is a campaign against Real being able to become a candidate for the league title.