by Tremendous anger throughout Levante with the refereeing. Calleja’s team lost to Espanyol in the last minute (2-1) due to a penalty converted by Braithwaite. The action, however, occurred only a few seconds after a possible penalty by Keita Baldé for a handball that the referee did not review in the VAR.
In the 95th minute, the Espanyol forward cleared the ball with his arm from a corner taken by the visitors. The Levante players protested angrily, but the referee, after stopping the game waiting for some instructions from the VAR, He indicated that everything could be resumed with a goal kick for the locals.
“We are burned, we eat it once again. “The referee may have doubts live, but having the VAR… It is incomprehensible,” said Javi Calleja, Levante coach, at a press conference. “There is a lot of work behind it, the players were destroyed. All the effort is going to shit. I don’t understand it.”
Another who also showed his anger was Pablo Martínez, a footballer from the visiting team: “We only ask that Levante and our shield be respected. It is very difficult to achieve a victory in this category and they are playing with the hopes of many, with the bread of many… We ask for respect and to look good because what happened today cannot happen. It has no explanation. The conversations are not clear. One tells you one thing and from above they say another. Let them come out and explain it.”
The club also expressed itself on social networks with its official account, stating that “There is no possible justification for what happened today.”
