{"id":295077,"date":"2026-02-17T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295077\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:02:09","slug":"jules-kounde-gives-one-word-response-to-controversial-winner-in-barcelonas-defeat-to-girona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295077\/","title":{"rendered":"Jules Kounde gives one-word response to controversial winner in Barcelona\u2019s defeat to Girona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Jules Kounde had a one-word response when asked about the controversial end to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/barcelona-la-liga\/112916\/girona-barcelona-la-liga-final-score-match-report-recap-reactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Barcelona\u2019s clash with Girona on Monday night.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Barcelona\u2019s clash with Girona on Monday night.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Frenchman was fouled in the build-up to Girona\u2019s late winner but the referee failed to award a free-kick and the goal was given.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kounde was quizzed on the incident as he left the stadium afterwards and managed just the one word to waiting reporters. \u201cClaro\u201d was Kounde\u2019s verdict \u2013 which needs little translation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Television replays have shown clearly that Claudio Echeverri stood on Kounde\u2019s foot, leaving the Frenchman on the turf before Fran Beltran netted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Girona boss Michel was asked about the incident and shared his thoughts on the play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI think it\u2019s a counter-attack. It can be called. If the referee doesn\u2019t call it, VAR is right not to intervene. That\u2019s my feeling,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI think these kinds of tackles are straying from the essence of football. If the referee sees a tackle, fine, but for VAR to intervene would be a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jules Kounde had a one-word response when asked about the controversial end to Barcelona\u2019s clash with Girona on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1998,149585,1077,63642,85,46,22060,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-295077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-claudio-echeverri","10":"tag-getty-images","11":"tag-girona","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-jules-kounde","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}