Sheriff complains about arbitration: “The 0-4 is somewhat manipulated”

The coach of Real Sociedad, Imanol Alguacil, digested one of his biggest annoyances since he took the txuri urdin bench and, after the meeting, something unusual, he criticized the refereeing and pointed out that his team “didn’t deserve to lose like that”.

“It’s clear. Everyone has seen it and from what they have taught me someone must explain for what has happened in the field. Things have happened outside that have not helped us at all and have made a difference. I don’t understand why they didn’t allow Januzaj’s goal, I think that in their second goal Isak wasn’t offside and picks it up. There are situations that make games so close even though we haven’t had our best game”.

“I have entered the locker room, I have told them the truth and I have congratulated them despite the beating received. It wasn’t our best match but today…” insisted the txuri urdin coach, who considered that “in such a balanced match, the details are very important”.

He did not understand that Adnan Januzaj’s goal, which would have tied one, was annulled after being reviewed by the VAR, and said he was “annoyed” because “in such a balanced game things should have been normal and the same and today it was not like that in such an important match in which those decisions have a tremendous influence”.

Alguacil wants to turn the page on this harsh defeat, he encourages his staff to “insist and learn once again because the stick is fat although the 0-4 is somewhat manipulated”, a marker that “stings” the blue and white coach and whom he trusts “to turn it around this Sunday against Valencia”.