Hermoso ‘helped’ Figueroa Vázquez to make the penalty decision

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The final minutes of the match played by the Atletico Madrid and Espanyol at the Metropolitano will be remembered for a long time by football fans, especially those of the two teams that played. The rojiblanco team prevailed with a goal scored by Carrasco from the penalty spot in the 99th minute of the match, after 95′, still within the extension time that had been decreed Figueroa Vazquez, Raul de Tomas hit the ball with his arm.

It was a few endless minutes since the Andalusian referee was notified by the VAR until he made the decision to point out the eleven meters. Moments charged with tension for the footballers of both teams and for the fans who followed the match in the stadium and on television.

The mattress players tried to get closer to Figueroa Vázquez while he watched the action repeated on the monitor. Also someone from Espanyol, and his coach, Vicente Moreno. But there was one who became another assistant to the referee: Mario Hermoso.

The central mattress, who did not play a single minute, approached the referee, and even told him on several occasions that it had been a penalty, lcoming to point to the screen and tell him in which area of ​​Raúl de Tomás’s arm the ball had hit. Figueroa Vázquez, who seemed totally overwhelmed by the situation, said nothing to him. Gimenezdressed for the street, since he had not been called up due to injury, also pressed a few meters away.

A sainete lived in the final minutes of the Metropolitano match, which ended with a fair decision by Figueroa Vazquez, to award a penalty by the hand of Tomás according to the regulations, after a controversial performance by the Andalusian referee, who had previously shown the second yellow card to Geoffrey Kondogbia for a hand that occurred after rejecting the ball in Felipe, and that according to all the experts, should not have had the punishment of the warning.

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