The Valencian referee of the Athletic-FC Barcelona, Mateu Lahoz, desentonó this Sunday at night in half of a spectacular party between two of the best teams of the League Santander. And it is that the referee, that already has prejudiced to the Barça in more than an occasion during the last times, mainly by his style too permisivo in the physical contacts, went the protagonist of some absurd decisions especially in the first-half, and almost always hurtful for the group of Luis Enrique.
The first curious action of the arbitration of Mateu Lahoz was to signal a non-existent fault of Denis Suárez that, besides, had been the object of fault to the edge of the area of Gorka Iraizoz. The Barcelona interior was arrollado by a Basque defender, but Lahoz pitó fault of the Galician, for despair of the propip player of the Barça and also of the rest of blaugranas.
But the more unthinkable and cowardly "decision" of Mateu Lahoz would arrive some minutes afterwards, shortly before that arrived to the rest. In a contragolpe of the Athletic of Bilbao, Denis Suárez braked without fail -and without touching neither to the balloon neither to the contrary player- the played local.
To Mateu Lahoz took him the theft of Denis of backs and did not see at all, so it decided to guide by the estruendo of Saint Mamés, that carried him to "sweep for house" and signal fault of Denis. The Galician footballer began to protest, and with him arrived quickly Busquets and Luis Suárez, visibly angered by the decision of the referee after having seen -they yes- the action.
The case is that Mateu Lahoz, do not content with having prejudiced to the FC Barcelona pitando the non-existent fault, showed yellow cardboards to Luis Suárez and Sergio Busquets, mermando of this form the defensive forcefulness of the culés in the second half. In definite, a despropósito that, fortunately, did not finish in consequences in the tocante to the result of the party, that in these moments already left 0-1 thanks to a brilliant played braided by Burn Turan and Rakitic.