The most 'hot' classics: the biggest controversies

El classic Real Madrid-Barça o Vice versa gives for everything, also for arbitral controversies. A couple of years ago he tended to believe that the VAR was going to end them. On the contrary: it provides a new element for the discussion, although logically the great messes with the referees are prior to the recent technological application. The most legendary controversy of all is much older: he starred in Guruceta in a Barça-Real Madrid of Cup in 1970. So much, that the last name of the Gipuzkoan referee, already disappeared, was chanted as an insult every time there was some arbitral mess. MD remembers just some controversies of the Classic. Reviewing them all would be worthy of encyclopedic volume.

1

Guruceta Muro (quarterfinals in 1970)

The most mythical controversy: Guruceta gave penalty in favor of Real Madrid Following a pool of Velázqueza meter outside the area. The Barça Eladio He was expelled when protesting and the general tension ended the police about the grass of the Camp We. He Barça He challenged the Gipuzkoan referee until 1985, at first as a reaction and then with a symbolic act. From there he shouted 'Guruceta'To any fallible collegiate.
A referee before the Guipuzcoan, Ortiz de Mendibil, The mess in a Classic in it Bernabéu In 1966. later commentator of 'Moving’, Ortiz de Mendibil He extended until the 99th minute without apparent reason a match that in 90 was 0-0. He ended up winning Madrid With a goal from Veloso. Barça challenged him just a year, a child game compared to Guruceta. In 1968, again in Chamartín, Ortiz He was the protagonist again: a fry entry of the meringue Of Felipe a Bustillowho wore two goals, was not even punished, but ended up 'de facto' with a race.

2

Antonio Rigo (Final of the 1968 Cup)

Two years before Gurucetahe Real Madrid He felt aggrieved by the arbitration of Mallorcan Antonio Rigo In the so -called 'bottles' end', for the rain of glass helmets that closed a match that ended with the title of the Barça in it Bernabéu. The merengue version speaks of two penalties not indicated in favor of the Madridone a Sample and another a Serenabut in an interview with AS in 2005 Line He maintained 37 years after there was no penalty to Sample and that Serena threw himself with will to deceive him. He also revealed that before the final a white employee offered him as a gift a gold watch and then made his life impossible.

3

Urío Velázquez (League 1985)

Urío Velázquez, which hung the whistle in 1993 with arbitration very protested by the Zaragoza In a Cup final in which the beneficiary was the Madridarbitrated in the 1985-86 league Barça-Madrid in which he inconceivably annulled a goal to Archibald For an offside that only he saw: the Scotsman Barça received a pass back from Marcos To mark empty goal.

4

Losantos Omar (Liga 2001)

It was in the Bernabéu: with 2-2, Losantos Omar annulled a legal goal to the culé rivaldo in the last moments of the game. The Brazilian shot and Helguera touched the ball to introduce it into the goal of Casillas. That triumph would have reached Barça to the fight for a league that ended up winning Valencia.

5

Muñiz Fernández (Liga 2003)

In a Real Madrid-Barcelona which ended 1-1, Muñiz Fernández He did not grant a legal goal to Culé Mendieta or a clear penalty about Luis Enrique that supposed the expulsion of iron. Zidane was also not sanctioned after attacking Luis Enrique.

6

Undiano Mallenco (Liga 2007)

Undiano Mallenco arbitrated the first classic in which Messi signed a Hat Trick. He correctly expelled Oleguer but then repeatedly forgave the expulsion to Madrid's Diarra. And, especially, he ignored a penalty at the end of Diarra to Ronaldinho who could have given the victory to Barça. It was not an anecdotal failure: the league was won by Madrid for 'Goal-Aege'.

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Undiano Mallenco (Final of Cup 2011)

Beyond the concrete decisions was the most scandalous arbitration for its general tone. The Navarrese referee allowed the extreme violence by Madrid in Mourinho – the same, aggressions – and annulled a goal by Pedro, which would have avoided the extension, out of play when he was online. Already in the last minute of the extension, with Madrid winning, he expelled Madridista Di María for the most innocentone action of a match full of illegal actions.

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Fernando Teixeira Vitienes (Vuelta de Cuartos de Final de Copa 2012)

After the classification of Barça (1-2 at the Bernabéu and 1-1 at the Camp Nou) this classic will be remembered because the Merengue coach José Mourinho went to the parking lot to wait for the referee. The photo of Pere Puntí in Mundo Deportivo He picked up the unpublished reproach.

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9

Pérez Lasa (Liga 2013)

It was an inconsequential Madrid-Barcelona For the enormous advantage of the team of Tito Vilanova In the League, but the controversy was not lacking. Won the Madrid 2-1 after the last action of the party, Pérez Ago He will not point to a clear penalty by Zancadilla of Sergio Ramos a Adriano. Pérez Lasa hung the whistle without seeing a defeat of the Madrid After arbitrating 16 games. Valdés He ended up being expelled. The Barça goalkeeper cost four sanction games.

10

Hernández Hernández (Liga 2020)

The canary will be precisely who whispens this Sunday and the Real Madrid He felt very harmed by the arbitration of the first round match in the Camp Nou, to such an extent that its main public relations, Emilio Butragueño, He shouted in the sky when he claimed two penalties in the area of ​​the Barça a Raphael varane In a match that ended without goals. “” They are 'very clear', it is disconcerting and difficult to understand that a technology that is available to the referees is not used in these plays, “he criticized. Real Madrid implied that Hernández Hernández He was a little pleasant referee for his interests, although his thickest mistake was not to see a Barca goal with the ball more than half a meter inside the goal in a Betis-Barça of the 2016-17 League. In the end, that goal would have given the Barça The title that took the Real Madridthe last achieved so far.