England prima Jude Bellingham furiously told the linesman to 'f*** off' during a fraught Madrid derby which finished 1-1.
Real Madrid hosted section rivals Atletico sitting a constituent and spot supra them astatine the apical of La Liga, with Carlo Ancelotti's broadside were ravaged by injuries. Even earlier Julian Alvarez gave Atletico the pb successful the archetypal half, a fired-up Bellingham fto his frustrations known.
After challenging Marcos Llorente connected the touchline, Bellingham expected his broadside to beryllium fixed a throw-in. But erstwhile the determination went Atletico's way, the 21-year-old snapped.
"F*** you, man," Bellingham raged, with the pitch-side microphones intelligibly picking up his outburst. "F*** you," helium added.
Bellingham jogged distant shaking his head, visibly unhappy. The midfielder didn't consciousness immoderate amended erstwhile Atletico were awarded a arguable punishment done VAR.
Samuel Lino went down aft interaction from Real's Aurelien Tchouameni, who seemingly knew small astir it. Ex-Manchester City striker Alvarez stepped up and sent Thibaut Courtois the incorrect mode conscionable earlier the break.
The hosts came rapidly retired of the blocks for the 2nd fractional and Kylian Mbappe drew them level wrong 5 minutes. Bellingham's blocked changeable fell consecutive to the Frenchman, who made nary mistake.
Los Blancos dominated the 2nd half, limiting Atletico to a fewer breakaways. Diego Simeone's men inactive caused Real problems connected the counter, though, truthful some teams seemed could instrumentality positives from the draw.
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Angel Martinez/Getty Images)The winners of the nighttime were Barcelona, who are 3rd but tin spell wrong a constituent of second-placed Atletico and 1 constituent of Real if they bushed Sevilla distant from location connected Sunday. Much of the speech post-match was astir referee Cesar Soto Grado and his 2 large calls - the punishment and Dani Ceballos' foul connected Pablo Barrios - with Ancelotti and Simeone taking opposing views connected his performance.
"I don't privation to speech astir the referee, I conscionable don't privation to," Ancelotti fumed. "The VAR called the penalty, the referee was precise adjacent to the situation, helium saw precise good what happened, helium indispensable person seen a akin punishment called against Athletic. People successful shot don't recognize this. I don't privation to get into a contention that is already big, I similar to speech astir the game."
Simeone, meanwhile, said: "I thought the referee handled it successful the champion way. For some, it was a reddish paper for Ceballos, and VAR should person reviewed, for others it was not… He understood what helium understood. And successful the VAR they understood that they did not person to telephone him. I thought helium played a close game."
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