The penalty to Memphis Depay brought a lot of controversy. Iturralde, in the microphones of the SER, stated that this penalty should not have been signaled by Del Cerro Grande. ” It is a penalty that according to the Referees Committee it is not necessary to whistle. But by dragging the defender with his back leg, and having contact, the VAR cannot call the referee, “said the former referee. Before the Camp Nou derby had already given rise to controversy.
Nico González claimed a penalty from David López.
The youth squad Nico González starred in the first controversy of the meeting between FC Barcelona and RCD Espanyol. The culé midfielder anticipated David López when Vicente Moreno’s team wanted to start playing from behind and, when he was already facing Diego López, Nico González fell to the ground claiming a penalty. Immediately afterwards, the coach of the match Carlos Del Cerro Grande told the Blaugrana footballer to get up. There was nothing. While on the lips of the young Barça midfielder it was read “he has stomped me”, Iturralde González stated in Sports Carousel that “that’s a card for Nico. I whistle him a foul against and a card.”
On the next play, Gerard Piqué stopped with a foul the exit against Espanyol, led by Raúl de Tomás. The Espanyol players claimed, in addition to the foul, the yellow card for the culé defender, since Piqué took his elbow and ended up hitting the face of the parakeet striker. The players had to separate Memphis Depay from the captain of RCD Espanyol, who became slightly involved after the controversy of the penalty, but the conversation between both players did not go further and neither player ended up seeing the yellow card.