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Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez says the Catalan membership are ‘paying for the Negreira case’ after Brazilian attacker Vitor Roque was once controversially despatched off against Deportivo Alaves on Saturday night.
Barça beat Deportivo Alaves 3-1 at Mendizorrotza with aims from Robert Lewandowski, Ilkay Gundogan and Vitor Roque, but Xavi was once sad because the Brazilian was once confirmed a red card leisurely in the game.
Roque came off the bench to ranking, but picked up two yellow cards in hastily succession – the 2d for supposedly stamping on Alaves defender Rafa Marin.
The resolution gave the impact extremely harsh and even supposing Marin posted an image afterwards of his bloodied leg, it’s some distance laborious to look how contact may per chance presumably have been kept faraway from after he slid in on the Brazilian.
Speaking before this game, Xavi had ratified the words of his president Joan Laporta after the membership chief stated Staunch Madrid’s television campaigns against referees had been “conditioning the officiating” and “adultering the competition”.
And after this most up-to-date controversy, the Barça coach was once sad again as he spoke in his put up-match press conference.
“I develop no longer have to claim it, you are going to have all viewed it,” he stated. “We’re paying for the Negreira case – that is the truth. That’s what I after all feel.
“Essentially the most straightforward yell I quiz for is that they permit us to compete, that is all I quiz. And I gained’t communicate about referees any additional. You abolish me for it, but what can I command? I’ve to indicate the truth.”
The Negreira case issues funds of €7.3 million made by Barcelona to the former refereeing committee vice president between 2001 and 2018.
Barça have denied corruption and command the funds had been made for consulation functions, to receive reports connected to expert refereeing.
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