Endrick (18 years old) escaped a red card for an angry gesture on the defender of Alavès Mourino, Tuesday during the victory of Real Madrid (3-2). This provokes a new controversy on a refereeing supposedly favorable to the Merengues.
Real Madrid’s painful victory over Alavès (3-2) on Tuesday was marked by a new controversial refereeing decision. Endrick (18 years old) escaped a red card after kneeing the opposing defender, Mourino, in the crotch (82nd minute). The Brazilian star only received a yellow card for this gesture of ill-temper committed while Real were leading 3-0. And this indulgence has heated up the players.
“It’s red!”
After the match, Luis Garcia, Alavès coach, had a rather heated argument with Carlo Ancelotti. “It was a sending off,” he repeated to him. In a press conference, the coach assured that the tone had not risen between the two men, while maintaining his point of view.
“We gave our opinion on the matter but without any problem or confrontation,” he said. “Endrick’s gesture, it’s red, we should have played the last 10 minutes with one more. It’s Endrick’s intention to strike, it’s clear red and nothing more. It’s red, there’s nothing more, I’m not going to talk about it any more, I’m talking about a specific action and the red is red. It’s true that they got a few more yellow cards but on this action by Endrick, it’s red.”
The Brazilian’s move has been the subject of debate on sports shows in Spain, as well as on social media, where the referee’s leniency with Endrick is annoying. Last weekend, a penalty awarded to Real against Espanyol had already caused some gnashing of teeth, as the foul on Endrick seemed to have taken place before the penalty area. On Tuesday evening, the Madrid players also complained a lot about the decisions of Alejandro Muniz Ruiz, who they said was guilty of giving too many yellow cards for protest (4).
Carlo Ancelotti also expressed his opinion on the referee’s excessive severity during his discussion with Luis Garcia. “I told him that I thought that yellow cards for protest were exaggerated and I told him that I had to do my job to stop players from protesting,” concluded the Italian.
Despite this, several Spanish media outlets have also noted that Vinicius could consider himself lucky to have escaped a second warning after mocking the referee when extra time was announced (six minutes). A red card would have made him miss the clash against Atlético on Sunday.
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