Alberto Undiano Mallenco, already withdrawn from arbitrationIt is probably the braid that has harmed Barça the most times in the history of the Classics. He retired at home, it could be said, at the Santiago Bernabéu, whistling his last game before his audience in 2019. Average League 2006-07, won by Capello’s Madrid, is his, by shamelessly influencing Barça 3-Madrid 3, that of Messi’s first hat trick (by leaving Barça with ten and forgiving Diarra the red one and not pointing out a book penalty to Ronaldinho in the discount because he did not feel like it), and also more than half the Copa del Rey 2010-11, where he perpetrated the most sibylline arbitration that is remembered in favor of a contender. Today they are fulfilled nine years since that end of Copa move in Mestalla, in which Undiano was something more than the player number twelve of Madrid de Mourinho.
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The game, if it can be called that, was actually a competition between Madrid footballers to see who deserved to be sent off the most. The triumph, much disputed, they shared it Arbeloa, Pepe and the supposedly elegant midfielder Xabi Alonso, actually one of Mourinho’s gang of violent men. A shame of the coach’s approach, a shame of follow-through by a number of players and a shame of refereeing.
Match statistics
Statistically, the clash was resolved in overtime with a header from Cristiano Ronaldo. Undiano annulled an offside of Pedro very justito, impossible to determine whether it was correct or not. And, above all, Madrid finished with ten, because to laugh a little more at Barcelona’s fans, Undiano did the comedy of expelling Di Maria (undisputed champion in the subcategory of ‘swimming pools’) already at minute 120. So Mourinho could say that that it did not end with eleven.
Despite the fact that Barça dominated the game from the start Until the end, at all times it was seen which stick the thing was going for. Madrid, with the 5-0 league on November 29, 2010 between the eyes, he didn’t hang out with little girls and, without any remorse, went out to hit. In some cases, to do harm. There were entries of Pepe, Arbeloa or Xabi Alonso absolutely chilling, even colleagues without whom neither Casillas, nor Ramos nor, of course, the mediocre Arbeloa or the overrated Alonso they would have been world champions. And there was a variable criterion of Mr. Undiano, according to the color of the t-shirts.
Busquets got a well deserved card and Pedro, for a jump that was not even missing, another, in an incredible way. Madrid were forgiven grabs, jigs with the studs in front or entrances cutting counterattacks. Not missing. Instead, Di Maria or Cristiano made a trampoline jumping contest very interesting, with punishment by Undiano, almost always looking for the card to Dani Alves.
Pepe, in its sauce
Pepe’s service record in that game It is creepy: great squad, with the studs in front, on Piqué without fail; stomp to Messi’s ankle, being able to really hurt, nor is it wrong; already with a yellow card (miracle!), grabbed Pedro avoiding a counter, nor lack; Squad to Busquets in the Barça area, the only thing missing; Messi is missing from behind. All these actions, five, were worthy of card, already having one. Some, like the stomp on Messi (which was not even missing), even in red.
Pepe, go for Messi’s ankle. Nor look at the ball, only at the leg
Let’s move on to Arbeloa, which in his career he earned the nickname that accompanies him: unpunished assault on Villa, whom he stepped on while on the ground and then raised in bad manners with the help of Ramos; aggression, with the leg at the level of the crotch and with the heels in front, to Adriano. These two actions, very light red. They were not missing. Besides, actions out of place about Villa, Messi or Pedro who, just by reiteration, should have been a card.
From behind, I already grabbed by the knee
And the ‘mister’ Alonso. Eye to the data: entry from behind to Messi, without going to look for the ball, with the leg at the knee. Just yellow. Already admonished, another entry from behind to the Argentine and, above all, a grab at Iniesta cutting one against. Just counting the plays more treacherous. In another game, this guy came to spit on Iniesta after that the manchego reproached him for the pettiness of his hardness while playing against Barça. In this final of 2011 he had to be expelled.
Stomp from Arbeloa to Villa
These three champions of unpunished toughness formed, together with Mr. Undiano, The four horsemen of the apocalypse. Ramos, Carvalho or even Khedira remained slightly below in terms of hardness, although not for lack of desire: they tried, but they were not at the height.
The Ramos moment
Ramos, what lagged behind in terms of prominence during the match, he was compensated in the celebration: Madrid, clearly inferior at the time, mounted a rúa for having won the Copa del Rey, as Piqué has recalled in later years. During the rúa, to the one of Beds he dropped the cup from the coach and was shattered.
A week later, Barça pulled out its thorn by winning in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final at the Bernabéu by 0-2. This time the referee was not Undiano and Pepe got the red for a treacherous tackle, with the tacos in front, on the leg of Dani Alves. The regulation is like that. A couple of years later, Jordi Roura (second by Tito Vilanova, whom he replaced during the treatment of his illness) expressed at a press conference the feeling of the Barcelona dressing room regarding this referee, happily retired.
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