Real Madrid want the referee’s head
The Madrid derby kept all its promises by giving us a high-intensity match. And five days after its disillusionment against Lazio in the Champions League, Atlético de Madrid raised the bar by winning against its rival (3-1). Álvaro Morata and Antoine Griezmann had a big match. The Spanish striker is in the spotlight on the front page of Marca And A.S.. The two media point the finger at the “defensive disaster» of Real and the “unhappy evening for Alaba, responsible for two goals“. In his editorial, A.S. regrets once again that another number 9 was not recruited this summer in addition to Joselu. Well, this defeat left a bitter taste for Madrid supporters. The Real Madrid television channel, RMTV, directly attacked the decisions of the derby referee. “ Terrible refereeing by Alberola Rojas. His unfortunate performance is decisive and changes the situation. Real Madrid should have returned to the locker room with a score of 2-2 and Atlético de Madrid, with one player less» declared a presenter during a television report on derby refereeing. In total, 3 big errors were dissected, and prove, according to the media, that Real were “weighed down by the evening referee“.
The ghostly OM
After a week marked by an extraordinary crisis, OM were punished by the PSG armada yesterday at the Parc des Princes (4-0). As written Provence in today’s edition, OM supporters didn’t expect much from this classic, but they were still disappointed. This defeat remains a “humiliation» as the daily title, which is more crude in its editorial and compares this shock to “a BDSM session in the Parisian dungeon rather than a football match“. “OM is shipwrecked» for its part, the newspaper signs The Marseillaise on its front page. The media does not hesitate to point out that this is only “the first defeat of the Olympians in the league this season, but it remains revealing of the state of weakness of the team”. For its part, the team especially highlights the great Parisian performance. “Paris too powerful”, we can read on the front page of the newspaper. In his transcript, Le Figaro sums up the match very well: “Hakimi Delicious, Ounahi asphyxiated, Aubameyang Ghostly“. And in its interior pages, The Parisian believes that Paris has “given a lesson» to the Phocaeans thanks to “a Barça-style tiki-taka“.
Adrien Rabiot is popular
In The Sun, we learn that two English clubs are interested in the services of Adrien Rabiot. First, there is Manchester United, who have already tried it this summer. Erik ten Hag appreciates his profile and wants to try again this winter, if he does not extend with Juve. They will have to face competition from Newcastle. The Magpies, who heavily beat Sheffield yesterday (8-0), want to strengthen their midfielder with the Frenchman, who has still not discovered the Premier League.