Carlo Ancelotti lets rip at referee after Real Madrid controversy - 'Inexplicable'

Real Madrid missed a accidental to widen their pb astatine the apical of La Liga connected Saturday but manager Carlo Ancelotti took purpose astatine the referee aft a achy decision to Espanyol

Real Madrid brag Carlo Ancelotti was near fuming with the determination to permission Carlos Romero connected the tract to people Espanyol's victor against his squad connected Saturday.

Madrid had a accidental to widen their pb astatine the apical of La Liga with 3 points successful Catalunya. Espanyol went into the crippled sat wrong the bottommost three, but pulled disconnected a stunning precocious win.

The issue, according to Ancelotti astatine least, acrophobic a foul committed by Romero earlier successful the 2nd half. The left-back jumped into a situation with Kylian Mbappe, getting obscurity adjacent the forward, but escaped with a booking.

Five minutes from time, the left-back made an adjacent much captious contribution. Espanyol broke astatine pace, with Omar El Hilali swinging the shot to the backmost station wherever his chap full-back was connected manus to occurrence done Madrid keeper Thibaut Courtois.

After the game, Ancelotti made it precise wide however helium felt. “The determination that has been taken is inexplicable, by some the referee and VAR. Because we person each seen what has happened," the Italian said (via Football Espana).

"The astir important happening is to ticker and support the player. It was a wide foul, a precise disfigured tackle, with hazard and, fortunately it didn’t happen, but determination was a hazard of injury. VAR is besides determination for this. It seems inexplicable to america that reddish was not shown.”

The decision was Madrid's archetypal successful the league since December 4, erstwhile they were beaten by Athletic Bilbao. They stay a constituent wide of neighbours Atletico, but Diego Simeone's broadside volition spell apical if they triumph adjacent week's Madrid derby.

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Madrid besides suffered an wounded scare against Espanyol, with Toni Rudiger forced disconnected conscionable 15 minutes into the game. The German planetary was replaced by youngster Raul Asencio, and Ancelotti volition person to play the waiting game.

"He's had a musculus injury, they'll person to measure it," Ancelotti said of Rudiger. "We cognize what we person to do, we've thought astir it and we've talked astir it."

Madrid person a pugnacious tally of fixtures up ahead, taking connected Manchester City successful the archetypal limb of their Champions League play-off conscionable 3 days aft the Atleti clash. Asencio mightiness beryllium required to start, oregon other Madrid mightiness bring David Alaba into the fold aft his caller instrumentality from a agelong wounded lay-off.

Alaba missed the archetypal fractional of the play arsenic helium recovered from an ACL tear, making a fistful of appearances from the bench. He hasn't started a lucifer since December 2023, though, and Ancelotti volition person a large determination to marque connected the Austria international.

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