{"id":4807,"date":"2026-04-14T23:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/4807\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T23:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:33:13","slug":"raphinha-claims-barcelona-referee-conspiracy-in-bizarre-rant-after-atletico-madrid-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/4807\/","title":{"rendered":"Raphinha claims Barcelona referee conspiracy in bizarre rant after Atletico Madrid defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raphinha<\/a> has claimed that Barcelona<\/a> were \u201crobbed\u201d during their Champions League quarter-final defeat by Atletico Madrid<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Hansi Flick\u2019s runaway La Liga leaders were 2-0 down on aggregate in the last eight of Europe\u2019s premier competition, but they hauled themselves back level in the tie after Lamine Yamal and Ferran Torres\u2019 goals.<\/p>\n

Ademola Lookman restored Atleti\u2019s aggregate advantage as he finished off a sweeping counter in the first half.<\/p>\n

Barca were reduced to ten men in the second period as Eric Garcia was adjudged by VAR to have felled substitute Alexander Sorloth as he peeled away, through on goal.<\/p>\n

The Culers had already seen a man sent off in the previous leg at the Nou Camp, when Pau Cubarsi was given his marching orders.<\/p>\n

Raphinha, who is currently sidelined with a hamstring injury he picked up on international duty with Brazil, travelled with his team-mates to the Spanish capital but could not contain his fury at the result afterwards.<\/p>\n

“For me, we were robbed,\u201d he told TNT Sports Brasil.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t want to talk about the refereeing, but we played extremely well, they committed I don’t know how many fouls, and the referee didn’t even pull out a single yellow card against them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe refereeing was very bad in all the decisions he made. What I really want to understand is, by what criteria is Barca being refereed?”<\/p>\n

“I’d really like to understand the secret behind this fear that haunts these people at the thought of Barca winning.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, we’re all human and we can make a mistake in a match, that’s something I can understand, but for it to happen in two consecutive matches? That’s not normal. I think the result of this double confrontation isn’t fair.”<\/p>\n

Raphinha, the former Leeds United winger, also taunted Atletico supporters post-match, gesturing that Diego Simeone\u2019s side would fall at the semi-final stage.<\/p>\n

Atletico could face Arsenal in the last four later this month, should Mikel Arteta\u2019s men come through Sporting Lisbon on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raphinha has claimed that Barcelona were \u201crobbed\u201d during their Champions League quarter-final defeat by Atletico Madrid on Tuesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1309,3322,366,179,549,92,187,927,934,938,3401,2178,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-4807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-ademola-lookman","9":"tag-alexander-sorloth","10":"tag-arsenal","11":"tag-atletico-madrid","12":"tag-barca","13":"tag-barcelona","14":"tag-champions-league","15":"tag-eric-garcia","16":"tag-ferran-torres","17":"tag-lamine-yamal","18":"tag-leeds-united","19":"tag-pau-cubarsi","20":"tag-raphinha"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","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=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}