After losing to Athletic Bilbao in the early hours of this morning, Eibar player Pedro León also expressed his anger after the game, saying bluntly that the referee was not worthy to enforce La Liga.
"This referee (Del Cerro Grande) he wasn't supposed to be enforcing La Liga at all, at the time I just wanted him to explain, but he said that there was no problem with a red card for Escalante and that after blowing off a penalty in favour of Eibar in the previous match against Villarreal, they wouldn't continue to give us any set-pieces.
Pedro Leon mentioned a match on April 1, when Villarreal lost 3-2 at home to Eibar, where duty referee Ocón Arráiz awarded Eibar a controversial penalty before missing one of Huang Qian's penalties.
Pedro Leon continued
"Now, if Sánchez Arminio (Chairman of the Referee Committee) wants to investigate me, it's totally fine. I just want to say that today's referee should not be enforcing La Liga, I was shocked by his arrogance, I just wanted him to give me an explanation and then he gave me a yellow card. ”
"It looks like he's the dictator on the pitch and there's nothing I can do about it. I'm angry now, but I don't regret what I said. ”
And if what Pedro Leon said after the game is true, some of the penalties in this referee Del Cerro Grande game may be "making up the pot" for his colleagues.
Pedro Leon's interview did not appear on the official tweet of broadcaster beIN or LaLiga's YouTube channel after the game. Leon himself relayed his words on Twitter after the game, ending with:
'If I can't even say a word from my point of view as a player now, it looks like we're all living under dictatorship."
(Editor: Mizuho Tsei)