Real Madrid adds fuel to Atletico derby Fire with rulers complaints
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Real Madrid’s complaints about referees created more equal than the usual about Crunch la Liga derby clash with ATLETICO MADRID on Saturday. Madrid league leaders are hosting their competitors in their city, in second place, and it fails to one point, in Santiago Bernabeu, after a loud week in Spanish football. At the end of last week, Los Blancos dropped three points in a shock defeat in Espanyol, after which they sent the Spanish Football Association a speech exploding in the Spanish League.
Madrid was left raging after Espanyol defender Carlos Romero surveyed Kylian Mbappe, and avoided a red card before the winner recorded.
Carlo Ancelotti Mbappe left outside his team, who beat Leganes on Wednesday to reach the semi -finals of the Cuba del Rery, saying that the attacker had a bruising of bruising.
The French star is likely to return to Atletico for the first time since he joined Los Blancos. MBAPPE tied 1-1 in September at the Metropolitano Stadium with a problem with the knee strings.
Madrid succeeded in late 3-2 over Leganes, which saw them avoiding an additional 30-minute exhaustion.
Ancelotti said: “The team is in good condition, we left some players to rest and be prepared for Saturday,” Ancelotti said.
Madrid’s strong complaints about the referees did not pass without anyone noticing throughout the city.
“Can you help us in the nuances in the following actions? Pressure, fear, intimidation, coercion, intimidation, influence, imposition …” Atletico wrote in a naive letter on X, in the wake of Madrid’s speech.
Atletico Antoine Griezmann striker said he was not satisfied with the situation, including the focus in the media in the Madrid statement.
“Now the referees will be afraid of making mistakes because they know they are watching,” French striker told Movistar.
“We have to allow them to calm down, and they have enough on their hands as is the case on the field, not to mention the stupid things from which they start.”
Atletico themselves were hinting at the rulers’ bias for Madrid, especially after Los Blancos defeated Celta Vigo in the January Cup match with controversial calls to them.
“I haven’t seen a match yesterday, they told me about some of the things that happened, as happened 100 years ago … I don’t know why people are surprised,” said Atletico coach Diego Simon.
Real Madrid comes to Derby with injury problems at the back, with Antonio Rudiger, Adri Milito, Danny Carvag and David Alaba all.
Ancelotti must also decide whether to keep the attack attacking in Vinicius Junior, MBAPPE, Jude Bellingham, Rodrygo or choose a more conservative setting.
Simon joked that he will arrive in Bernabeu “in the same way as always, by bus (positions).”
With the attackers Alexander Surloth, Griezmann, Julian Alvarez and Ageil Korea are among the goals recently, along with Rodrigo de Ball in the midfield, Rojiblancos definitely has a fiery power to dismantle the hosts if they choose an attacked approach.
Player to watch: Pedry Gonzalez
Barcelona midfielder Bidry in the form of his career and an essential part of the Hansi Felk midfield room. The creativity of Canary Islander will be shown on Sunday when the Catalan visit Seville, with the aim of maintaining pressure on the top of two.
Main statistics
3 – A tie in the four four subscriptions Lega Derby between Real Madrid and Atletico
6 – Alvarez, Surlon and Korea replaced in all competitions for ATLETICO this season
181 – Veteran Girona Dali Amami has the largest number of passes in the last third in the first stage
Matches
Friday (at all times GMT)
Rayo Valleccano V Real Valladolid (2000)
Saturday
Celta Vigo V Real Betis (1300), Athletic Bilbao V Gherona (1515), Las Palmas V Villarreal (1730), Real Madrid v Atletico Madrid (2000)
Sunday
Alaves V Getafe (1300), Valencia V Leganes (1515), Real Sociedad V Espanyol (1730), Sevilla V Barcelona (2000)
Monday
Real Mallorca v Osasuna (2000)
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