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Refereeing expert: a refereeing scandal over Romero not being sent off

  • On Sunday, referee Ortiz Arias reversed a yellow card decision in the Madrid derby after a VAR review, initially booking Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham before penalizing Atletico's Cristian Romero instead.
  • Tensions were high during Sunday's derby as Real Madrid and Atletico players traded hard tackles, with the incident occurring when Romero and Bellingham challenged for a loose ball, leaving the Englishman on the ground after being trodden on by the Argentine.
  • Former Spanish referee Iturralde Gonzalez criticized the decision, arguing the challenge deserved a red card: "He tried to reach the ball, and this requires a red card. He planted his foot firmly and did not pull it back," he said.
  • The controversial call left viewers divided, with some fans supporting the intervention while others questioned why Romero avoided a red card during a first half defined by protests and hard tackles throughout the 45 minutes.
  • Refereeing controversies persisted throughout the first half, including a missed booking for Kang-in Lee's challenge on Federico Valverde and a 35th-minute booking for Pubill after he halted a Kylian Mbappe counter-attack.
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Lean Left

Real Madrid TV was already crying at the break. “What yellow? What a shame, how disgusting, how filthy,” they said in the propaganda white television on account that the collegiate had not expelled the Cuti Romero in an action with Bellingham. As long as they continue in this line of...

·Barcelona, Spain
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Center

The Madrid channel is tougher than ever.

·Madrid, Spain
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Lean Right

The Atlético de Madrid was the first derby of the season , contested in the Metropolitan Riyadh, with a deceptive 2-1 against Real Madrid. José Mourinho’s were notably harmed by the arbitration decisions in the first part, in which the collegiate Ortiz Arias stopped showing two clear red cards to the locals. Primera’s best referee for me today has not been much less at the level that was expected. Mal in the disciplinary aspect the Madrid. In th…

·Madrid, Spain
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Lean Left

In the context of a heated derby between the Atlético and the Real, the Argentine and the British argued on multiple occasions. The play that revised the VAR that almost ended in red for the albiceleste defender

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Right

Real Madrid ended the rest of the derby indignant with Ortiz Arias' decision not to expel Cuti Romero.

·Madrid, Spain
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Real France broke the news on Sunday, September 20, 2026.
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