In the 45th minute, Luis Milla launched a direct free kick into the Madrid area. Casemiro grabbed Yangel Herrera, but Martínez Munuera did not point at anything. After the action was reviewed by the VAR, the play was not considered punishable either. However, As y la Ser's referee, Iturralde González, considers that Casemiro's maneuver should have been punished with the maximum penalty: “Casemiro starts by grabbing the Granada player outside, but he's still inside so the referee should have whistled a penalty.”
In addition, Iturralde gave as an example the action of the penalty that Lenglet committed to Ramos in the last Classic: “If Sergio Ramos's in El Clásico is a penalty, this is a penalty.”