A man with headphones speaks in front of a microphone in a radio studio while elsewhere in the image a control room is seen with several screens showing a soccer match and the Real Madrid crest.
Iturralde González speaking with a Real Madrid badge and the VAR room behind | Camara Real Madrid Confidencial
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Iturralde González loses his temper on El Larguero over the Cornellá audios

The former referee talks about the controversy in Cornellá and makes a striking statement

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Borja Díaz

The controversy of Espanyol – Real Madrid is still ongoing and is going to have a long journey. The merengue team remains very angry and wants to get to the bottom of this whole matter. They want to know why a neck grab on Mbappé inside the area wasn't considered and why Romero wasn't sent off.

These are two actions that marked the course of the match and for which they feel severely wronged. That's why Real Madrid has requested the audios from the referee with the VAR from the RFEF. They seek to know the truth of what was said in Cornellà to make those gross errors.

A player in an orange uniform is on the ground with a pained expression while another player in a blue and white uniform watches closely on a soccer field.
Mbappé on the ground after Carlos Romero's tackle | Real Madrid Confidencial

Something that seems not to have pleased Iturralde González who has once again lost his temper on El Larguero. He claims that "any club, with good manners and not threatening, not suing" would have them. Therefore, he implies that they are making things difficult for Madrid as revenge.

In fact, he continues saying that "I don't invite anyone to my house who doubts, who says that the referees are against them." We'll see if the Federation finally shows the mentioned audios from Cornellà. But if they don't, it would be because they didn't like that Real Madrid demands justice.

Medina Cantalejo stalls on the audios from Cornellà and Real Madrid

Medina Cantalejo was on Josep Pedrerol's podcast a few days ago talking about all this. The journalist asked him if they were going to deliver the audios from Cornellà to Real Madrid. The president of the CTA showed that his intention is to stall the white team on this issue.

A radio commentator in front of a microphone with a background image of a soccer match between players from teams in orange and blue uniforms.
Iturralde González with the tackle on Mbappé from behind | Real Madrid Confidencial

"Now it's a complicated situation, let everything calm down and from there we have no inconvenience," he said. Therefore, it seems he wants not to show those audios now and let time pass. Especially so that the controversy dissipates and what might be discovered isn't so dangerous.

Otherwise, it doesn't make sense that there is so much secrecy with the conversation between the referee and the VAR. We will have to wait to see if they finally show it or continue with these delays. But Real Madrid demands justice for a situation that can't be allowed.

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