Refereeing In Atletico Tie 'a Robbery' - Barca's Raphinha

Barcelona's exit from nan Champions League quarter-finals was "a robbery", their guardant Raphinha says.

They had a subordinate sent disconnected successful each limb of their 3-2 aggregate conclusion by Spanish rivals Atletico Madrid, pinch their 2-1 triumph connected Tuesday not capable to overturn a 2-0 shortage from nan first game.

In some cases, a yellowish paper was upgraded to a reddish aft nan referee was instructed to reappraisal astatine a pitchside show nan imaginable denial of a goalscoring opportunity.

Pau Cubarsi was dismissed by Istvan Kovacs successful nan first leg, and chap Barca defender Eric Garcia was sent disconnected by Clement Turpin successful nan second.

Kovacs was besides criticised by Barca aft he and video adjunct referee Christian Dingert allowed play to proceed erstwhile Atletico defender Marc Pubill handled nan shot successful his ain punishment area.

Raphinha missed each crippled done wounded but told reporters aft nan 2nd leg: "For me, this lucifer was a robbery. Not conscionable this lucifer but nan different 1 arsenic well.

"The refereeing was really bad, nan decisions [Turpin] makes are unbelievable.

"I don't cognize really galore fouls Atletico made but nan referee didn't springiness them a azygous yellowish card.

"I really want to understand why they're truthful acrophobic that Barcelona will travel and win."

Atletico did not person a subordinate booked successful nan 2nd leg, while Barca received 1 yellowish paper arsenic good arsenic a red.

Pubill was 1 of 3 Atletico players booked successful nan first leg, erstwhile he stopped nan shot pinch his manus aft goalkeeper Juan Musso had appeared to restart play pinch a goal-kick.

Barca complained to Uefa complete a "grave deficiency of VAR intervention" but European football's governing assemblage said connected Tuesday that the club's protestation was "inadmissible".

"It was tough, particularly erstwhile you realise you person to activity 3 times arsenic difficult to triumph nan match," added Raphinha, 29.

"I deliberation this necktie was rather misleading, successful my view. I deliberation everyone tin make mistakes; everyone is human.

"But erstwhile nan mistakes support repeating themselves successful precisely nan aforesaid way, I deliberation that's thing we request to salary attraction to."

When asked to respond to his comments, Uefa said that its disciplinary assemblage will measure reports from Tuesday's crippled earlier deciding connected immoderate adjacent steps, including a imaginable complaint for nan erstwhile Leeds player.

Atletico keeper Musso said: "You can't opportunity this lucifer was stolen from them; that's ridiculous.

"They acted arsenic if they should person had 3 penalties and we should person had 4 sendings-off. We won connected nan pitch, 2–0 away, and erstwhile you're nan past man back, you get a reddish card."