{"id":5135,"date":"2026-04-15T08:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/5135\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:03:33","slug":"we-were-robbed-raphinha-rages-at-very-bad-refereeing-after-barcelonas-champions-league-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/5135\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We were robbed\u2019 \u2013 Raphinha rages at \u2018very bad\u2019 refereeing after Barcelona\u2019s Champions League exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Barcelona star Raphinha claimed his team were \u201crobbed\u201d against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/barcelona-uefa-champions-league\/117697\/atletico-madrid-barcelona-la-liga-final-score-match-report-recap-reactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atletico after going out of the Champions League 3-2 on aggregate.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Atletico after going out of the Champions League 3-2 on aggregate.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Atletico after going out of the Champions League 3-2 on aggregate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Brazilian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/barcelona-team-news\/116296\/raphinha-expected-to-miss-key-barcelona-games-as-timelines-emerges-after-injury-blow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:who missed both games due to injury;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;who missed both games due to injury&quot;}\" class=\"link \">who missed both games due to injury<\/a>, was in Madrid to watch the second leg as Barcelona won 2-1 but couldn\u2019t quite overturn their 2-0 first-leg deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Both legs saw plenty of controversial decisions, leaving Raphinha frustrated with the match officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cFor me, we were robbed,\u201d he told TNT Sports Brasil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about the refereeing, but we played extremely well, they committed I don\u2019t know how many fouls, and the referee didn\u2019t even pull out a single yellow card against them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\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?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI\u2019d really like to understand the secret behind this fear that haunts these people at the thought of Barca winning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYes, we\u2019re all human and we can make a mistake in a match, that\u2019s something I can understand, but for it to happen in two consecutive matches? That\u2019s not normal. I think the result of this double confrontation isn\u2019t fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Raphinha\u2019s comments could now land him in hot water. According to Mundo Deportivo, he could be sanctioned by UEFA for criticising the referee, something that happened previously when Neymar blasted the match officials after PSG\u2019s exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona star Raphinha claimed his team were \u201crobbed\u201d against Atletico after going out of the Champions League 3-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2139,92,3544,223,82,2865,1498,94,17,1236],"class_list":{"0":"post-5135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-atletico-de-madrid","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-estadio-metropolitano","11":"tag-fc-barcelona","12":"tag-madrid","13":"tag-neymar","14":"tag-psg","15":"tag-raphinha","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-uefa-champions-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135","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=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}