Fighting! Real Madrid and La Liga controversy: Unsuccessful penalty kick, sudden drug test, rejected first round postponement

Football 3:07am, 22 September 2025 148

"Marca" wrote an article to take stock of a series of disputes between Real Madrid and the Spanish Football Association, the referee and the La Liga official within just 32 days of the start of the game.

Special Situation

1 League Opening Schedule: Real Madrid applied to postpone the first round of the league due to insufficient preparation time (only 15 days), but the request was rejected at all levels.

2 Referee dispute against Oviedo: In the second round of the league, Real Madrid complained that at 0-0, Rudiger and Mastantono had two suspected penalty fouls encountered by him were not punished.

3 Referee dispute against Mallorca: In the third round, Real Madrid had three goals and were invalid (Mbappe's two goals and Guerre's one goal), and the club pointed the finger at Barcelona, ​​saying that a penalty kick obtained by Yamal was not reviewed in the first half of VAR.

4 Schedule against Villarreal: The club is not satisfied with the 8th round schedule. The team needs to go to Kazakhstan to play the Champions League (nearly 8 hours of flight) on Tuesday before they can resume training on Thursday, but the league is scheduled on Saturday rather than a Sunday that can be scheduled.

5 Heisen was sent off against Real Sociedad: The controversy pushed Real Madrid's confrontation with the referee agency to the pinnacle, and Heisen's red card caused the team to play no more than an hour.

6 Heysen's suspension complaint was rejected: the club appealed for red cards, but both the Competition Committee and the Appeals Committee maintained a suspension penalty, and the player himself expressed dissatisfaction.

7 Submit a report to FIFA on referee issues: After Real Sociedad, Real Madrid TV announced that the club is preparing a file on referee issues that will be submitted to FIFA.

8 Published red card statistics: Real Madrid has released a data to express dissatisfaction: Since the 21st century, Barcelona's net red cards (the number of opponents sent off minus the number of their own side sent off) is +65, while Real Madrid has -2.

9 Castia encountered a controversial penalty: Real Madrid B team (Castia) was also involved in the referee dispute. When playing against Athletic B Bilbao, player Sestro was strictly sent off; when playing against Athletic Ferro, Joan Martinez suffered a violent elbow strike, and the referee still did not show a red card after watching VAR.

10 Time for doping check before the Champions League: La Liga's "anti-doping prosecutor" appeared at the training base the day before Real Madrid's first Champions League match. Although it was a routine check, the timing of its choice interfered with the team's training and increased tensions.

source:CN 7M