Efraín Juárez attacks Cruz Azul for his complaints against the arbitration

Efrain Juarez, Pumas coach, strongly criticized the decision of the board of directors of Blue Cross to challenge the appointment of whistler Daniel Quintero Huitrón for next Sunday’s duel in the definition of the title of the Clausura 2026 tournament, by ensuring that the celestials are the most benefited by the arbitration.

Juárez did not hold anything back at the end of the first leg of the grand final where the Pumas managed to emerge victorious in the visit to the Ciudad de los Deportes stadium with a goalless draw and where there was a controversial action where a penalty was not scored against Cruz Azul of course out of character for Carlos Rodríguez.

“As for the (arbitration) resolution, I spoke yesterday about the referees at the conference, I don’t want to touch on the subject too much. What does surprise me is that an institution as large as Cruz Azul, one of the most important and largest in this country, “I always want to take advantage of circumstances when in this League the ones who have benefited the most have been them.”

“We must not forget, minute 30 against Atlas, a handball, penalty and they do not score it, we must not forget the penalty against Chivas, we must not forget Fernández’s handball; They do against me against America and they don’t and they still have the audacity to complain.”

“Because it is audacious to go and complain when they are here due to those circumstances, because if not, Chivas would be fighting in another circumstance. It seems to me that the category of this institution is impressive and they surely do it with the intention of giving the referee a hard time. I think that today the referee does a spectacular job and on Sunday it will be like that.”

The plays that Efraín Juárez forgot

In his claim, the Pumas coach, Efraín Juárez, forgot to mention that during the first leg the referee Ismael Rosario López Peñuelas missed the entrance of Rubén Duarte on José Paradela from Cruz Azulwhere the VAR was not even used to review the play.

In the second controversial play, where in the action of the penalty invalidated to Carlos Rodríguez, the whistler commits a serious mistake in the interpretation of an action that comes from a rival and that, logically, the offside should have been invalidated and given way to the penalty kick.

Instead, said whistler went to the dresser to review the action on the VAR and not analyzing the play carefully in a clear failure of refereeing capacity.

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