Atletico Madrid’s Robin Le Normand on Gerard Martin red card – ‘If I do the same, no doubt they send me off’
Atletico Madrid’s Robin Le Normand on Gerard Martin red card – ‘If I do the same, no doubt they send me off’ Atletico Madrid defender Robin Le Normand has joined teammate Juan Musso and manager Diego Simeone in claiming that Gerard Martin’s red card should have stood in their 2-1 defeat to Barcelona. Following a VAR review, the referee decided to downgrade Martin’s challenge to a yellow card. Speaking after the game, Simeone declared that there ‘wasn’t much more to say’, and the officials ‘got it wrong’.
Le Normand’s complaints followed a similar line, even going a step further. He was asked about Hansi Flick declaring that it was not a red card in his view. “Of course he’s going to say it’s a red card, but I think it’s very clear for everyone that understands football, that has played the game.
If I do it, no doubt they will send me off. I don’t know what happened, I don’t understand it. ” Le Normand frustration with referee More generally on the performance of the referee, Le Normand felt that he did not help the game as a whole either.
“No, as you saw, today he didn’t speak to anyone, not even the captain. Whenever anyone tried to speak to him, he showed a yellow card. In my view, his officiating raised the tension of the game.
Everyone can get it wrong, and he got it wrong. ” In their previous game against Real Madrid, the officiating ‘details’ from an Atletico point of view went against his side too. “Everyone is watching it [in reference to decisions against Real Madrid], I’m not going to repeat myself, they are big details, that have a big impact.