MUNICH (AP) \u2014 Real Madrid coach \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa slammed referee Slavko Vin\u010di\u0107\u2019s \u201cinexplicable\u201d decision to send off Eduardo Camavinga toward the end of Bayern Munich\u2019s 4-3 win in the Champions League on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Vin\u010di\u0107 blew the whistle for a foul after Bayern forward Harry Kane went down under minimal contact from Camavinga and clutched his shin as if in pain. Vin\u010di\u0107 then showed the Madrid substitute his second yellow card, but appeared to forget that he\u2019d booked him already. He was reminded by Bayern players including Jamal Musiala, Joshua Kimmich, and Aleksandar Pavlovi\u0107, and subsequently sent the player off.<\/p>\n
Luis D\u00edaz scored three minutes later to equalize at 3-3 on the night, putting Bayern 5-4 up on aggregate, before Michael Olise made sure of the win in stoppage time, giving Bayern a 6-4 win over two legs.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything was over with the red card,\u201d Arbeloa said. \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable. You cannot send off a player for this action. It\u2019s not fair in a match like that, and well, we are very, very upset, very angry, but also congratulations to Bayern Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arda Guler scored twice and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 scored the other as Madrid threatened a comeback after losing the first leg of the quarterfinal 2-1 in Madrid last week.<\/p>\n
Arbeloa said the sending off was \u201ccompletely inexplicable and unfair.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThe tie slipped away from us in a way that was beyond our control, and I feel terrible for my players, for the effort they put in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very proud of them, of the fans, of everyone who traveled, of those at home, and of the club. What hurts most about this defeat is that we won\u2019t win the sixteenth (European title) this year, and \u2013 above all \u2013 because of the way it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Madrid faces the prospect of a second consecutive season without a trophy as it trails Barcelona by nine points in La Liga with seven rounds remaining and was knocked out of the Spanish Cup by second-division side Albacete Balompi\u00e9 in January.<\/p>\n
It will most likely be the second season Mbapp\u00e9 finishes without a major trophy since joining Madrid from Paris Saint-Germain in 2024.<\/p>\n
PSG won the Champions League the next season and is back in the semifinals \u2013 where it faces Bayern \u2013 later this month and May.<\/p>\n
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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUNICH (AP) \u2014 Real Madrid coach \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa slammed referee Slavko Vin\u010di\u0107\u2019s \u201cinexplicable\u201d decision to send off Eduardo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-606926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}