performance of referee Frank de
Bleeckere in Real Madrid's 1-1 draw with
Barcelona and claimed the Catalans
receive "preferential treatment" from
officials.
Real were knocked out of the Champions
League following a 3-1 aggregate defeat
to their arch-rivals, with the nine-time
European champions outraged by De
Bleeckere's decision to disallow a Gonzalo
Higuain goal early in the second half, after ruling that Ronaldo had fouled
Javier Mascherano.
The decision followed last week's
controversial sending off of Pepe by
Wolfgang Stark, an incident which
prompted Real coach Jose Mourinho to
make some remarkable accusations
about Barcelona's influence on and off the pitch.
Ronaldo echoed his coach's sentiments at
the time and returned to the conspiracy
claims after his side's Champions League
exit at Camp Nou on Tuesday. "The team is sad, but we knew it was an
uphill battle,"
Ronaldo said on Real's
official website. "The name of the match
is Mission Impossible IV. Once again it
was the referee that didn't allow us to
dictate the outcome. We knew we could beat Barca, but the referee didn't let us. "
Higuain's goal was good. Pique pushed
me and I landed on Mascherano. He didn't
used to fall to the ground in England, but
he's picked up the bad habit of doing it
here like everyone else.
"The referee in the first match took away
our chances of playing the final. Whoever
knows anything about football knows
that Barcelona get preferential treatment.
We knew something would happen.
We
knew that if we scored a goal that everything would be done to keep us
from going through. "This isn't good for football. We should
just stay home and allow Barcelona to
play alone if things don't change.
Barcelona have a lot of power off the
pitch. We would have drawn 0-0
without the Alves incident and tonight's draw would have seen us through.
"There are no differences between the
teams as was seen thoughout the four
matches. We won the Copa del Rey by
playing fairly. I don't feel that Barcelona
were better than us, but rather that they
have a lot of help from the referees.
" Real Madrid assistant coach Aitor Karanka
also suggested that the visitors had no
prospect of success at Camp Nou.
He said: "Mourinho was right. He said
that it would be impossible for us to go
through. Tonight proved that it was
impossible and 100 million people saw it
- there is nothing more to add."
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