Real Madrid meets the Spanish referee body after complaints

Real Madrid Managers met the head of the Spanish referee on Monday, after the club had filed a formal complaint about the referee’s decisions in their 1-0 Leaga defeat bee Espanyol Earlier this month.

Madrid was furious with referee Alejando Muñiz Ruiz for not sending Espanyol Defender Carlos Romero For a challenge Kylian Mbappé – With Romero, the only goal of the game and sent an open letter to the Spanish football federation [RFEF] On February 4, to request access to audio of conversations between civil servants around the incident.

The complaint accused officials of “manipulation and falsification” of the competition and said that the Spain referee was “completely in discredit”, in accusations that attracted an angry response from the Federation, Laliga and other clubs.

On Monday, Madrid’s director -general José Ángel Sánchez and secretary of the Club’s Board, José Luis del Valle, RFEF’s headquarters in Las Rozas, outside Madrid, to the VAR Audio, and for discussions with the head of Spain’s Technical Committee of Referene [CTA]Luis Medina Cantalejo.

“It is normal for questions to be asked about an incident,” Medina Cantalejo told journalists. “We have talked about different issues that are internal – not internal because they are secret, but because they are private matters – that relate to the CTA and a club that comes here to talk to us, and we talk to them.

“Evidently [the meeting] It took a while, because within an atmosphere of kindness and good manners, that had to happen. If there had been a confrontation, that is not what someone had expected or wanted, the meeting would have passed within five minutes. It was so long because we spoke with absolute transparency and truth. “

Madrid has often complained about referee decisions in Laliga, with the TV channel of the club, Real Madrid TV, who regularly emphasizes mistakes of officials.

After the Espanyol game, Madrid was also unhappy with referee decisions in their 1-1 Derby Draw of Atlético Madrid on February 8, and their 1-1 draw bee Health On Saturday.

“In our last three games, things have happened that everyone has seen. But I don’t want to say anything about it anymore, because I want to sit on the couch for the next game,” said coach Carlo Ancelotti. “I think there is a problem [with referees]. In the last three games something happened that should not have happened. “

Sources told ESPN that Real Madrid was still unable to understand the decision not to send Romero after the meeting. The club has demanded changes, says sources, but believes that their complaint has exposed them, given referee decisions in subsequent games.

The federation, on the other hand, found that the conversations had been positive, said sources, and Madrid had been treated in the same way as any other club.