Barcelona sitting President Rafael Yuste and Atletico Madrid counterpart Enrique Cerezo held a traditional directors lunch before the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final in Madrid. The former confirmed that Barcelona were studying UEFA\u2019s decision to reject their complaint about a non-penalty call during the first leg.<\/p>\n
The Catalan side were furious when Marc Pubill was not punished for a perceived handball in the second half of their 2-0 loss to Atletico at Camp Nou, and filed a complaint to UEFA over the matter. On Tuesday, UEFA said they had deemed the complaint \u2018indamissible<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cThe legal department is assessing the grounds on which UEFA has not accepted our claim, and when they tell us, we will act accordingly,\u201d Yuste told MD<\/a> hours later.<\/p>\n State of Metropolitano pitch not a concern<\/p>\n Equally, Barcelona manager Hansi Flick was seen complaining about the state of the Metropolitano pitch as his side trained on it on Tuesday. It was cut later that evening, and the Blaugrana have received assurances from UEFA over its state this evening<\/a>. Yuste, who is in temporary charge of Barcelona until the summer when Joan Laporta is sworn in for a fourth term, was not concerned.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not worried because I know that both sides of UEFA have been with the teams and I think the pitch will be in perfect playing condition.\u201d<\/p>\n Cerezo confirmed that Atletico had invited Laporta to the dinner due to their \u2018good relationship\u2019 and the fact he was the president elect. He thought little of any Barcelona complaints though, be it about the pitch or the refereeing.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cThese are things they\u2019ve complained about, UEFA has told them it\u2019s fine (the pitch), and I can\u2019t tell you more than that. I think some people like long hair and some people like short hair. I already saw it clearly, and as long as UEFA says so, that\u2019s it. You all talk about so many things during the day \u2013 the pitch, Pubill\u2019s play\u2026 Come on, something new. For me, this (the complaints) is utter nonsense,\u201d he explained to Sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n Julian Alvarez future<\/p>\n Naturally, as is the case before every meeting between the two, Cerezo was asked about Julian Alvarez\u2019s future, amid interest from Barcelona. His answer did not differ from his response over the past six months, telling the Catalan paper that \u201cI think he\u2019s going to stay with us for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona sitting President Rafael Yuste and Atletico Madrid counterpart Enrique Cerezo held a traditional directors lunch before the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[179,92,1856,3226,3225,1025,674,1416,3227,3224,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-4454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-blaugrana","11":"tag-complaint","12":"tag-enrique-cerezo","13":"tag-joan-laporta","14":"tag-julian-alvarez","15":"tag-marc-pubill","16":"tag-president-elect","17":"tag-rafael-yuste","18":"tag-uefa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}