MADRID, 22 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, was forceful about what happened on Sunday at the Santiago Bernabéu during the Real Madrid-Almería match and described what happened as a “shame”, asking the referee team to give a “response to a series of pressures” that he thinks he is suffering.
“What happened at the Bernabéu was a shame. I think that the refereeing team has to respond to a series of pressures that have been put on the referees throughout the season, and if they don't, they leave us very uneasy because I understand that “There is an abandonment of functions,” Laporta said this Monday during the gala of the newspaper 'Mundo Deportivo'.
In any case, the leader also preferred to focus on the good victory achieved at the Benito Villamarín where they had “a very intense match.” “And happy to win because we feel stronger every time, we are more cohesive. Now, what we want, since we are improving, is to have a sporting reward and on a day in which we could cut points, due to some referee decisions, I believe that due to a re-arbitration of the VAR, has not occurred,” he warned.
For Laporta, “when a team improves, it feels stronger.” “We have more unity within the locker room and, in addition, we are recovering injured people like Marc-André (ter Stegen) who will soon be able to join. We have players of excellent quality and I am very optimistic because I think we will have our reward, that the others Rivals will pay for it, as we did in the first part of the season. What we are doing is working, fighting day by day to stay in all the competitions and try to win them,” he said.