“The play is not clear to call a penalty”

Mikel merino He left the field somewhat frustrated by having missed two points and also by the decision of the VAR, in which he was Hernandez Hernandez, to whistle a penalty that the referee of the match, Munuera Montero, had not seen: “There is contact with him, I’m not going to lie to you,” acknowledged the realist, admitting that he touched the twin of Luis Suarez, but sees the marking of the maximum penalty unfair: “It is not clear to whistle a penalty”, sentence. And, in his opinion, video arbitration “only intervenes in very, very clear actions.” The ‘8’ txuri urdin maintains that the athletic forward had already finished off when he touched him and that the “intensity” of the play is not enough to rectify the referee’s decision and place the leather in the 11 meters.

In your assessment of the encounter, Merino considers that “we have missed two points”, since he understands that “we played a game to win.” He regrets that in the second part, “we have not been faithful to our game”, as in the first. And it is that, in his opinion, they had “many phases of having the ball and they suffer” and he believes that they should have continued in that line after the 0-2.

Merino understands that Real was superior in the first half and regrets that his team could not maintain the same attitude in the second: “When you go ahead, you have more fear of losing than courage to win. Unconsciously, we stop wanting the ball, in instead of sticking with bravery and high pressure. ”