FOOTBALL: Xavi denounces referee as ‘unfair’ after Barcelona’s penalty was disallowed against Inter

“This is unfair,” XAVI shout­ed after Barcelon­a’s 1–0 defeat to Inter.

La Liga lead­ers fell to third in the Cham­pi­ons League group stage after a nar­row defeat at San Siro.

Hakan Car­janoglu scored at half-time to give Simone Inza­ghi three points.

Xavi, 42, was out­raged by the final VAR decision.

First of all, Pedri’s equal­iz­er was not rec­og­nized because Barça GK Andre Onana han­dled the ball with FW from close range, and Ansu Fati care­less­ly hand­ed it dur­ing play, and the direc­tor protest­ed. It was meant to be noticed.

Even more con­tro­ver­sial was the appar­ent han­dling in the box by Inter full-back Den­zel Dum­fries in the clos­ing stages.

“I’m angry about the sit­u­a­tion we have to live in,” enraged Xavi after three points from three games in Group C.

“It’s unfair, I said yes­ter­day that the ref­er­ee should speak because I don’t under­stand anything.

“I did­n’t want to give an expla­na­tion at the end of the game,” he said.

After crit­i­ciz­ing Sloven­ian ref­er­ee Slavko Vin­cic, Xavi added: “We have three finals now.”

I am in a posi­tion of “dis­com­fort”. Six for them, three for us, nine for Bayern.

“We had chances, but we did­n’t take them and they scored with long-range shots.

Barcelona will face Inter next week in Catalun­ya and host Bay­ern Munich on 26 October.

A week lat­er, Barcelona end their Group C run against Vik­to­ria Plzen and look to qualify.

On the oth­er hand, in the league, they are unde­feat­ed with 6 wins and 1 draw in the open­ing 7 games.

On Octo­ber 16, they will face rivals Real Madrid at the San­ti­a­go Bern­abéu, but Car­lo Ancelot­ti’s team will also start undefeated.