Laporta: Barca could ask for Clasico to be played after ghost goal controversy

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The president with some strong words

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has made some extraordinary claims in the wake of the team’s Clasico defeat to Real Madrid on Sunday at the Santiago Bernabeu.

The Catalans were beaten 3-2 to slip 11 points behind their bitter rivals in a game full of controversy with Barca seeing a ‘ghost goal’ ruled out due to a lack of goal-line technology.

The incident has not gone down well with Laporta who has issued a four-minute video on social media where he’s even claimed the club could ask for a replay.

Here are the pertinent bits of his speech:

“We understand the difficulty of the referee’s work but precisely for that reason there are tools that should help have a fairer competition and not the other way around. Yesterday there were several debatable plays but among them there is one that is essential and that can lead to a change in the final result of the game. I am referring to the so-called Lamine ghost goal.

“As a club we want to be sure about what happened and that is why I inform you that from FC Barcelona we will immediately request the Technical Committee of Referees and the Spanish Football Federation to provide us with all the images and audios generated by the play.”

He goes on....

“If, once this documentation has been analyzed, the club understands that an error occurred in the assessment of the play, we will implement all the appropriate actions to reverse the situation without, obviously, ruling out any necessary legal proceedings.

“If it is confirmed that it was a legal goal, we will go further and do not rule out asking for a replay of the match , just as has happened in a European match due to a VAR error.”

Xavi was convinced the ball had crossed the line after the match and was critical of the decision now to allow the goal, while Marc-Andre ter Stegen admitted it was embarrasing that La Liga does not use goal-line technology when he spoke to the media in Madrid.

Source: barcablaugranes.com