Controversy took hold of El Sadar. Abde put the 1-2 on the scoreboard at the beginning of the second half not without controversy. Just before the Barcelona goal, Osasuna requested a penalty for a hand in the Barcelona area. The referee Martínez Munuera did not see the action as punishable and decided to let the game continue. In the subsequent match, Barcelona scored the winning goal.
Iturralde González, analyst at AS and Carrusel Deportivo de la SER, explained what happened and gave his assessment: “The goal is totally legal, the referee sees it live and decides that it is not punishable (that it is not a hand), although it hits (Busquets) but it is a natural hand. Barça’s goal is 100% legal. It comes to the hand of a takeoff of a colleague (Gavi) who is two or three meters away and Busquets cannot remove it, he hits him and you can see that he is going backwards. If we look closely, Busquets has a soft hand, down, when he hits him he wants to remove it because he finds it but hits him and moves him backwards “.
Iturralde even explains why the goal should not have been canceled: “If Busquets’ hand had been immediate and had ended in a goal from the player himself, then yes, he would have to have annulled you. Because in attack all the hands are whistled, be they involuntary or voluntary that end in goal, but this time it was in defense and involuntary “.