His intense annoyance with the refereeing both in yesterday’s game between Barcelona and Panathinaikos AKTOR and in general this season was expressed by Alex Abrines in his statements.
“We’ve been second almost all season, but they don’t respect us. The game changed when Ataman received a technical penalty. The referees changed their criteria since then and instead of punishing Panathinaikos, they started punishing us“, said – initially – Abrines and continued:
“I’m not just referring to today’s match, it wasn’t just what happened today. It happens every week, something has to change. Today the refs disrespected a player like Ricky Rubio. We are not talking about an 8-year-old who came from Barcelona’s second team. They didn’t give him a single foul, while at the same time they whistled every contact.”
Finally, the ace of the Catalan team talked about a… campaign against Barcelona.
“I don’t know why this is happening. I want to believe that there is no campaign against Barcelona. But something is happening, because we live it all season long. We have made mistakes, we lost a big margin today, but things happen that have irritated us.
They don’t let us (the referees) play, I think this is unfair. Something has to change, referees can’t make so many mistakes and then go home pretending nothing happened and just wash their hands so they can whistle the next game and keep getting paid.”concluded.
Source: Sport Fm
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