Unai Emery responds to Gerard Piqué

Unai emery, technician of the Villarreal, has taken advantage of the press conference after the tie (2-2) of his team against the current League champion, the Atlético de Madrid, to respond to Gerard Piqué, who this Saturday quoted a tweet in which the Valencia complained about the arbitration received in front of the Real Madrid and wrote: “Do not say it too loud that you are going to be penalized.”

“Instead of shutting up, he blurted out what he blurted out …”

“What is a real penalty was Piqué’s. But hey … Then he said it wasn’t a penalty, then he protested with the Real Madrid-Valencia tweets, he gets into other games … What he has to Being is sincere and not confusing people. That comes to mind because that penalty was not whistled from the VAR, and that was disastrous. And then on top of that instead of shutting up, he released what he said to deceive people … It seems to me that we are not honest or loyal with the referees, with the VAR and with football, “the Basque launched.

The play you refer to Emery, who had been asked about the goal disallowed by the hand of Dani Parejo in the match against him Athletic, took place on November 27, during the victory (1-3) of the FC Barcelona in The Ceramics. It was the 9th minute of the first half when Pique touched the ball with his hand in his attempt to prevent the Dutch Danjuma will score and neither the collegiate, César Soro Grado, neither the VAR considered that it was sufficient to indicate a maximum penalty.

Piqué, in ‘El Hormiguero’: “I think it’s not a penalty”

Later, the Barça center-back spoke about it on his visit to ‘The Hormiguero‘from Antena 3 assuring that “the issue of the hands is very difficult because every year the criteria change. I think it is not a penalty, it is close to the body and there is no intention.”

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