Carlo Ancelotti has hit again at LaLiga president Javier Tebas’ declare that Actual Madrid have “misplaced their minds” with their referee complaints, saying the membership need “to enhance issues” and “to vary a system they do not like.”
Madrid filed a proper grievance with the Spanish soccer federation [RFEF] earlier this week, livid on the determination to not ship off Espanyol defender Carlos Romero — who later scored the profitable aim — for a problem on Kylian Mbappé in Madrid’s 1-0 defeat on the RCDE Stadium final Saturday.
Talking at a gathering of LaLiga golf equipment with the RFEF and refereeing physique the CTA — which Madrid opted to not attend — on Thursday, Tebas stated Madrid had “misplaced their minds” on the problem, saying the membership had “constructed a story of victimhood.”
“It is one thing that I might choose to not focus on earlier than such an essential sport,” Ancelotti stated in a information convention on Friday, forward of Actual’s essential derby with title rivals Atlético Madrid on the Santiago Bernabéu. “However Tebas can keep calm. No one right here has misplaced their minds. We have requested for a proof of what occurred, to attempt to enhance issues, to attempt to change the system.”
Madrid have requested the federation to launch the audio recordings of conversations between on-field referee Alejandro Muñiz Ruiz and video assistant referee Javier Iglesias Villanueva across the Mbappé foul, and likewise an earlier disallowed aim from Vinícius Júnior.
Ancelotti stated that request had up to now gone unheeded, regardless of RFEF president Rafael Louzan saying on Thursday that the federation had “nothing to cover.”
“From what I hear, no one is comfortable [with referees],” Ancelotti stated. “Individuals suppose it is a system that favours Actual Madrid, however when Actual Madrid need to change it, everyone seems to be towards it. That surprises me a bit … We have not acquired [the audio]. I do not know why they do not need to give it to us. You’d must ask them.”
Rivals Atlético have elevated the temperature forward of Saturday’s derby with posts on social media, accusing Actual of “placing strain on referees” with their tv channel, Actual Madrid TV, highlighting errors from officers.
In Thursday’s pre-match information convention Atleti supervisor Diego Simeone took one other jab at Actual Madrid.
“I am not occupied with what the referee goes to do, however fairly what we will do,” Simeone stated in a information convention on Friday. “We’re occupied with the sport we’ve to play … I am targeted on the sport, you [the media] want solutions to this controversy, however I am targeted on the sport.”
When requested if Madrid put strain on referees, Ancelotti stated: “Not so far as I do know. Actual Madrid need to change a system that they do not like … We have solely requested for the audio. Typically it has been launched, and generally it hasn’t. We have not requested for something secret.”
Ancelotti stated he is targeted on discovering an efficient steadiness between his crew’s world-class assault of Mbappé, Vinícius, Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo, and a makeshift defence which has been hit exhausting by accidents.
“The 4 in assault have scored round 60 objectives, which is quite a bit,” Ancelotti stated. “We’ve an emergency in defence. They’ve completed a unbelievable job in assault, however the crew wants their defensive assist too.
“Typically we have lacked a little bit of steadiness within the crew. Some folks suppose eradicating a ahead might repair that, however I do not suppose it is like that. It is a collective downside, together with the forwards, the midfield and the defence.”
