The Real Madrid already has classified for a new final of Champions League, is true. But also it is it that it has done it thanks to some referee's helps that have been recurrent during all the season 2017-18 in the maximum continental competition, especially in the final rounds and when more adjusted has been the marker, with the whites to the edge of the precipicio.
This Tuesday Cüneyt Çakir dressed of 'devil' for the Bayern Munich, that by second consecutive campaign fell in semifinals of the Champions League against a Real Madrid that it was a lion with skin of lamb. Because, in spite of his endeble defence and of the gale of Bavarian occasions, always was protected by a celestial aureole, the awarded by the arbitration, that cost him again the pass to the final.
It suffices with throwing an ojeada to it sucedido during the present round and also the previous, since they gave beginning the eliminatory direct of the present campaign in Champions League, to darse that the Real Madrid is not in the final by own merits. Or, at least, no only therefore, but also thanks to a combination of luck and favourable arbitrations.
Eighth of final Real Madrid-Paris Saint-Germain
Although it is true that in the round of eighth of final the Real Madrid was upper in both parties to the PSG, also saw benefited by a very conservative arbitration to the hour to condemn the hard entrances of Carvajal, Marcelo, Bouquets and company, but more conclusive to the hour to take out cardboards to the Parisian players. In the gone of the eliminatory, the referee Gianluca Rocchi could expel to Kroos by double yellow and also pitar penalti of Sergio Bouquets, but did not do to sound the whistle.
To all this, in the played previous to the 2-1, Cristiano Ronaldo committed clear fault to Kimpembe no signalled by the referee, what allowed the target of the Real Madrid in front of some players of the PSG that did not give credit to the sucedido. We remember that, at the end of the meeting, Unai Emery criticised with hardness to the Italian referee when understanding that the Real Madrid, the team 'big', had gone out benefited.
Quarter-finals Real Madrid-Juventus of Turín
Although the Real Madrid did his work in the party of gone with a 0-3 imparable, practically without controversy, fits to take into account also that, in the party of turn, the Juventus saw prejudiced in the last minute of the meeting, when it finish to trace back the 0-3 adverse and prepared already to contest the extention in Santiago Bernabéu.
When the party already expired, Michael Oliver signalled a penalti doubtful of Mehdi Benatia on Lucas Vázquez. The action was aparatosa and very debatable, and of what there is not doubt is that it was not a penalti clear. In spite of this, Oliver did not doubt in signalling it and the Juventus maddened, until the point that the referee finish expelling to Gianluigi Buffon. A penalti that brought a lot of tail, in definite, and that resolved in favour of the picture merengue.
Semifinals Real Madrid-Bayern Munich
In the eliminatory of semifinals is where have given the majority of the controversial actions. Between the referees of the gone and the turn, Kuipers and Çakir, can say that the Real Madrid has had external allies to advance to the final.
In the meeting of gone contested in the Allianz Sand, when Carvajal pushed to Lewandowski, Kuipers no pitó at all, as it neither saw the hands of Carvajal neither the action of Bouquets on Müller. Until three possible penaltis demanded the Bayern, and any signalled . In the turn, Çakir has finished the work. It has not seen the flagrant hand of Marcelo in the interior of the area, and neither the possible push of Bouquets to Lewandowski, that caused the fall of the Polish forward in the first-half. Two possible penaltis more to the sack. And silence... A worrisome and increasingly usual silence.