Valverde: “This is far from what football is”

The referee’s decision Gil Manzano to cancel the purpose of Inaki Williams at VAR’s request for a previous hand of iker muniain star in a large part of the press conference of ernesto valverde. “It’s like you have to look at all the previous plays. No one on the field noticed the situation, not even the referee or the fourth official or the linesman. It’s like looking at things with a magnifying glass. It’s a show for the masses, but it’s far from the real football we all know. Now it’s our turn. These are situations that you suffer and they take away from what football is,” said the coach.

He gasteiztarra he acknowledged his resentment and that of his players. “We are angry at this situation. We’ve started playing things in season. This result means a lot to us. Now we are all angry, I have no idea if he hit the hand of iker muniain. We need to get up, get rid of the anger and move on. VAR will need to be put in place for egregious mistakes, penalties or blatant offsides, but there are people who need to solve this. Now we are pissed off and within a day I will still regret what I said”, added the Rojiblanco coach.

gasteiztarra separates this action from ‘Case of Negreira’: “It has nothing to do with that. We have to focus on the game. These VAR things happen in other fields. They see things that no one sees in the game. The rest has nothing to do with it. Barça is a team with a high level. In the first half, the pressure saved us. In the 44th minute we were exhausted and they caught us late. In the second half we had chances to tie”.

txingurri He was also asked if he considered that Barça won the League with him as coach in the last year of payments to the vice president of the Referees Committee. In this regard, he was very clear: “I think, I think we won the League with a difference of 14 points in second place and we won the Cup final against Sevilla 5-0. I don’t think there is much discussion about on who is the best of the season.”