{"id":338246,"date":"2021-04-11T14:15:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T13:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=338246"},"modified":"2021-04-11T14:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T13:18:23","slug":"el-clasico-what-gerard-pique-told-referee-after-barcelona-2-1-defeat-to-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=338246","title":{"rendered":"El Clasico: What Gerard Pique told referee after Barcelona 2-1 defeat to Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Details of the interaction between Gerard Pique and referee Gil Manzano has emerged.<br \/>\nReal Madrid defeated their fiercest rivals 2-1 in the El Clasico on Saturday and climbed top of the league table above Atletico Madrid on goal difference.<br \/>\nGoing into the game, both sides knew a win would see them go to the top of La Liga and the home side started the game composed.<br \/>\nZinedine Zidane\u2019s side led 2-0 at half-time, courtesy of first-half strikes from Karim Benzema and Toni Kroos.<br \/>\nOscar Mingueza pulled one back for the visitors 15 minutes into the second half<br \/>\nGerard Pique was named on the bench and did not play a single minute in the game.<br \/>\nBut that did not stop him walking onto the pitch and having a go at referee Gil Manzano, fuming at the match official after the final whistle.<br \/>\nPique was mad at the referee for adding only four minutes extra-time.<br \/>\nMarca reports that the veteran defender felt that more stoppage time should have been played.<br \/>\nPique also felt that his team should have been awarded a spot kick after Ferland Mendy appeared to pull down Martin Braithwaite in the dying minutes of the game.<br \/>\nDuring the game, referee Manzano had spent around five minutes trying to fix his technology due to poor condition, meaning Pique did have reason to protest.<br \/>\nPique told the referee, \u201cLet me speak, let me speak, you gave us a little extra time, and you\u2019ve been off the field for a long time.\u201d<br \/>\nReal Madrid\u2019s next game will be against English reigning champions, Liverpool in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final at Anfield. The reverse fixture ended 3-1 in favour of the La Liga giants.<\/div>\n<p>(DAILY POST)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details of the interaction between Gerard Pique and referee Gil Manzano has emerged. Real Madrid defeated their fiercest rivals 2-1 in the El Clasico on Saturday and climbed top of the league table above Atletico Madrid on goal difference. Going into the game, both sides knew a win would see them go to the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,6912,5278],"class_list":["post-338246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-elclasico","tag-real-madrid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/338247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}