BARCELONA – The second leg of the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey between Barcelona and Seville had a busy third half in the dressing room tunnel when Monchi, sports director of Seville and Pepe Castro, president of the Andalusian club, take on players and technical assistants from Barça. .
The representatives of Seville coincided in the locker room tunnel with the majority of the Barça players, who slowed their access to the locker room by staying on the field to celebrate their transition to the cup final to be played in Seville on April 17.
“You always win the same,” Cadena SER assured that Monchi and Castro snapped at the Barcelona players, who reacted vigorously before entering their dressing room.
“They go home warm,” Messi is said to have responded, according to the version published in the newspaper ‘Mundo Deportivo’. ESPN He tried to confirm this information in the immediate vicinity of Messi, but received no response.
On the other hand, Barça sources confirmed that a few minutes after the heat, the representatives of Seville tried to lower the tension, even by apologizing.
Monchi and Castro sat with other representatives of the official Seville expedition in the Camp Nou box, where Barça’s protocol department had reserved seats for them.
ESPN He found that there was tension during the match, in the Camp Nou VIP area, because of the constant comments from the representatives of Seville, nervous about how the match was going.
Barcelona and Seville have met up to three times in the past three weeks and virtually every match ended in controversy.
The Catalans claimed a penalty from Jordi Alba that the referee did not award after the first leg of the semi-final of the Copa del Rey in which Sevilla won 2-0. Then Suso set fire to the networks with various howling emoticons to respond to some of the words of young Pedri.
Days later, Sevilla’s Twitter account made fun of Barcelona after the Catalans’ defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16.
Barcelona reacted on the field last weekend by beating the Andalusians 0-2 in La Liga, but controversy again arose after Sevilla asked Messi for a red card for a double yellow card.
Monchi was even caught on television cameras asking for the card, saying that “the crybaby’s statements,” referring to Koeman, “had had an effect.”
The Catalan club won again in the Copa del Rey (3-0) on Wednesday to win 2-0 in the first leg and this time the Andalusians asked for both a possible expulsion of Óscar Mingueza for a double yellow and a penalty kick per hand. by Clement Lenglet in the final moments of the match.