Alex Abrines was very angry after the game that Barça lost on the court of Panathinaikos this Friday (89-81). The Balearic forward harshly criticized the actions of the referees, who in his opinion clearly hurt Barça in a situation that has been repeated throughout the season. “We have been second almost the entire season but they have no respect for us. The game is different when Ataman (Panathinaikos coach) whistles for a technical. They are starting to inflate, the refereeing criteria are different and instead of punish them, they They punish us. I’m not saying they are referees now because it’s not just now, it’s happening every week and something needs to be changed,” Abrines denounces.
The current Barça captain gave the referee’s decisions about Ricky Rubio as an example. “Now they don’t have any respect for a guy like Ricky Rubio, I’m not talking about an eighteen-year-old guy who comes from Barça B. They haven’t called him for a foul and they do in the smallest contact,” Abrines said, calling for a change in collective arbitration. “I don’t know why this is happening, I like to think that there is no campaign against Barcelona. But there is something, because we lived the whole season and it’s fine. We made a mistake and with more than twelve we can’t let this advantage slip away, but there are things that happen during the game, we’re fed up, they don’t let us compete and I think it’s unfair. Something has to change, it can’t be that the referees make a lot of mistakes, then go home that, nothing happened and wash your hands. And next week we’ll call another game and continue getting paid,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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