Munich has been the last straw for Madrid. Camavinga’s controversial red card caps the refereeing nightmare the white team has experienced in the last month, which the club believes has been decisive in the team saying goodbye to the league title and the Champions League. Madrid points to this collection of erroneous decisions against them as directly responsible for the league being practically lost and for being out of Europe.

The controversial decision by referee Slavko Vincic at the Allianz has taken the locker room and the white club to a state of indignation rarely seen before. The reason: they do not remember a sequence of such blatant errors with such devastating consequences.

Madrid traveled to Munich carrying the monumental anger over the uncalled penalty on Mbappe against Girona. A refereeing “wound” that was visible on the Frenchman’s face, who played the match against Bayern wearing a bandage to protect the gash caused by the elbow from Vitor Reis, which Alberola Rojas did not consider a penalty.

A controversial and decisive action because Madrid could have had a penalty in the final stretch of the match to win and still cling to a league title that, after the draw, has almost definitively slipped away. “It’s a penalty here and on the moon. It’s one more. Another week.

This is what we have, and that’s it. We’ve had many with the referees,” Arbeloa bitterly complained after the match. The public acknowledgment of the error by the refereeing committee only added fuel to the fire of Madrid’s monumental anger.

Before Girona, Madrid had already cried foul in the loss against Mallorca over a handball by Pablo Torre inside the area that was not called a penalty. The club complained not only that the VAR did not alert the referee to review the controversial action, but also that it was not even replayed during the broadcast.

An image that would go viral after the match, but went unnoticed during it. An action that, according to Real Madrid, could have changed the course of the match, occurring right at the start, with the score still tied at 0-0. In the same match, Madrid also questions the foul called on Mastantuono that led to Muriqi’s goal, which meant the white team’s defeat.

As if that were not enough, the starting gun for these 25 days of refereeing nightmare for Real Madrid took place in the derby on March 22. That time, it was the controversial red card to Valverde that unleashed Madrid’s anger despite the final victory. Munuera Montero enraged the white team after sending off Fede for a foul on Baena that they understood was far from a straight red, as the referee interpreted it.

A decision that forced Arbeloa’s men to play the last 15 minutes of the match with a numerical disadvantage in a situation in which they were fighting for the league title with Barcelona, and where a slip-up would have made it very difficult for them to stay in the race.

“He didn’t try to ruin the derby, he tried to ruin Madrid, which is not the same,” they denounced on Real Madrid Television. Missteps that would come later, all of them accompanied by a refereeing controversy that has culminated with Camavinga’s red card in Munich. 25 dramatic days for Madrid with referees in the crosshairs.

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