1970-01-01 00:00:00
Fifteen minutes with three key episodes ignited the match at the Bernabeu, with the referee called to the monitor between a penalty (for Real), a goal disallowed (for Almeria) and a goal validated (for Real). In the end, Los Blancos won in the ninth minute of injury time after being 2-0 down. Almeria post-match controversy
Everything happened, including penalties, goals validated and then disallowed, goals disallowed and then validated and over one hundred minutes of football. In the end Real smiles, passing 3-2 at home against little Almeria who are last in the table, all after having been 2-0 down. The classic spin of a championship that always hides more pitfalls than the more than forty points gap indicates: with a shock start for Ancelotti’s men, given that, just 39 seconds after the start, Ramazani burns his blancos with the advantage. We are instead in the 42nd minute when Edgar Gomez performs a feat into the top corner from outside and doubles the score. Unimaginable scenario: Madrid is 0-2 down at half-time.
Episode 1
Then the chaos begins. And it all begins, with more precision, in the 52nd minute, when a cross from Real’s left was deflected into the area by Almeria centre-back Kaiky. But with the arm? Or perhaps the irregularity of the hand was favored by a push from behind by Joselu who was looking for the ball in the gap? This is what referee Francisco Hernandez Maseo assessed on the monitor for a good five minutes: in the end it was a penalty. And Bellingham scores.
Episode 2
A few minutes pass and Real falls back into the nightmare of a defeat at home against the bottom of the class: quick vertical action by Almeria and 3-1 by Arribas in the 61st minute. But yellow is around the corner again: Did Lopy swing at Bellingham at the start of the play and commit a foul? Another trip to the monitor, another two-three minutes of waiting and another very complicated decision: the goal is disallowed.
Episode 3
Minute 67, all in rapid succession. Bellingham passes from the right: Vinicius anticipates everyone in the area and scores the 2-2, making the Bernabeu explode. His celebration, however, is strangled by the referee’s whistle which signals a hand intervention. Or maybe it’s him with the shoulder, as Vinicius mimes with broad gestures? Yet another déjà vu: yet another check on the monitor and – after another three minutes – the network is validated.
The victory in the 99th minute and the controversy
At that point the 2022 World Cup-style maxi recovery is around the corner: there are eleven. At their half, Almeria coach Gaizka Garitano was sent off. Towards the end Carvajal finds the winning deflection with his head after a bank of Vinicius. Real jubilation and controversy: Almeria closes their live text of the match on X with a laconic “don’t expect us to publish the match report, everything is very clear”. “Someone decided that we couldn’t win here” – full-back Pubill commented to DAZN on the sidelines instead. “We have the feeling that today they stole the game from us, what happened exceeds all limits” – thunders the midfielder Gonzalo Melero. Ancelotti, questioned after the match, instead dampens the controversies: “I saw them. I think it was the referee who made the decisions and not the VAR, and I think they were correct.”
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