There was no penalty on Jordi Alba, according to Iturralde

In the vibrant first leg of the semifinals between Seville and Barcelona, ​​there was also controversy. In the 62nd minute of the game, Messi and Joan Jordán became involved and the local players came to ask the Argentine for the red for an elbow on the midfielder. Mateu Lahoz did not consider that this had happened and the contact, for Iturralde González, was insufficient to sanction the '10'. Of course, he should have admonished both for the action.

The play that will give the most talk was in the 72nd minute. So, Mateu pointed just to the edge of the area a grab from Suso on Jordi Alba. In the repetition, it gave the impression that the infraction occurred within the area and not outside, although the VAR did not notify the referee. Iturralde, in the Sports Carousel of Cadena SER, considers the action “nonsense.”

“There is no where to take it. If the fault is whistled, that there is nothing, it is within the area yes or yes. When the foul is whistled, the VAR has to tell him that what has been whistled is nothing but to go see it because it is inside. They have taken for granted that a fault is outside being inside“, explained the referee of AS and Carrusel on the air. Later, in 85 ', Rakitic made the second, while the Barcelona players protested a possible offside. The repetition revealed that it did not exist and that, therefore, it was a goal legal.