"Unbelievable, this is unbelievable!", he complained from the bench, after Huijsen's straight red card. He saw the yellow card for the protests. It is his first card as the coach of Real Madrid.
"Unbelievable!", exclaimed Xabi Alonso from the bench. Live on air. Incredulous: "This is unbelievable!". The calm, cold, meticulous man starred in one of his first scenes of anger. That was his reaction upon seeing Huijsen's red card and, above all, that the play was not going to be referred to the VAR. The technology did not intervene. Gil Manzano's decision stood.
An inexplicable one, for Xabi Alonso. Incredible. And it's giving rise to a lot of talk. It was the 33rd minute, Real Madrid was leading 0-1 and from a clearance by Real Sociedad, the ball bounced and got past Huijsen. Out of nowhere, a counterattack materialized. And 40 meters from the goal... Dean grabbed Oyarzabal. Militao was running alongside, but for Gil Manzano it was the last man. Direct red card. Indignant
And Xabi Alonso exploded. First, he went to his staff's screen to review the play, and upon seeing that Militao was nearby, he ran out to request that the play be reviewed. It was when he saw that Gil Manzano would not go to the sideline monitor that he completely lost his temper. "This is incredible!" he shouted. Unable to understand a decision that keeps going wrong.