Tenerife's Alejandro Hernández Hernández and Santiago's Santiago Jaime Latre (VAR) have been appointed by the Technical Referees Committee to lead the Real Betis – Osasuna match next Wednesday at Benito Villamarín. These are two of the collegiate with whom Betis has reaped the worst results in recent years, since with Hernández Hernández he has accumulated no less than 14 games without winning (9 defeats – including two derbies loaded with controversy – and 5 draws), since that the last betic triumph with refereeing from Tenerife dates back to March 8, 2013, precisely against Osasuna (2-1).
Two years earlier, after a game in Ponferrada, in the Second Division, Pepe Mel, then Betic coach, called Hernández Hernández “incompetent” for nullifying a goal for his team for offside after a throw-in. “He whistled offside on a throw-in! They tell me that on television it is scandalous, ”lamented Mel. Hernández Hernández promoted the following season to Primera.
With Santiago Jaime Latre Betis have only won 2 games, tied one and lost 8 of the eleven that have refereed him, the last 4-2 conceded against Levante three days ago, a shock that could have a very different sign if with 0- 0 in the minutes that Betis dominated, signals a penalty or expels Postigo for a takedown of this on Fekir in which the VAR did not indicate anything or intervene.
This past Saturday, in the clash against Celta, Betis was the victim of another disastrous arbitration by the Asturian González Fuertes, who along with Hernández Hernández and Jaime Latre are three of those who are on the verdiblanco club's extensive blacklist as far as arbitrations are concerned.