Article by Aurelian Botezatu – Published Monday, 01 December 2025, 07:44 / Updated on Monday, 01 December 2025 07:45
Real Madrid only managed a 1-1 draw at Girona and are one point behind leaders Barcelona in the standings.
Real missed the chance to go past Barcelona, but their TV channel, RMTV, blame referee Ricardo De Burgos. “He made glaring and unjustified errors against the Real Madrid team. He is the individual who did them the most harm”, was the conclusion drawn by RMTV journalists after analyzing the errors committed by the “central” in the game contested by the Madrid team in Girona (1-1), on Sunday evening.
RMTV: “De Burgos is one of the referees with the most egregious record against Real Madrid”
RMTV claims that “La Liga is corrupt” and that the white team “is 4 points lower in the table than it should be, due to refereeing errors. De Burgos is one of the referees with the most egregious record against Real Madrid. An irregularity is that the VAR does not notify the referee.
It happened in Vallecas and it happened in Girona. And it already happened last year, when Real Madrid were six points ahead of Barcelona. There was the Espanyol incident, the Pamplona incident… and it happened again this year.
No matter how Real Madrid play, the reality is that the referees are getting it on the wrong footthose who have to make the decisions are absent, and their president justifies them. And who is the vice president of the Federation? Javier Tebas”.
Rodrygo asked for a penalty in the end, De Burgos refused
On Sunday evening, Real asked for a penalty for an intervention by Joel Roca on Rodrygo (min. 80). The Brazilian confronted Roca in the box, and the former fell to the ground after contact with his right leg. At that moment, Rodrygo made an immediate appeal to receive a kick from 11 yards.
The contact is obvious, but Rodrygo will not get a penalty / photo: catch
He did it again as soon as referee De Burgos blew the final whistle. Rodrygo, Militao and Bellingham, among others, confronted the referee. Rüdiger, who had already had an incident with De Burgos in the Copa del Rey final that led to a 6-match ban, had to be escorted off to prevent further problems.
The outrage on the pitch spilled over into the RMTV studio, where those in attendance slammed the referees: “Maybe you don't see it on the pitch, but there's no justification for the VAR not to review the phase. The contact where it's a penalty.”
Marca newspaper also saw a penalty, with Kylian Mbappe: “The contact is clear”
And there was another controversial moment, noted by the daily Marca: “Before Girona opened the scoring, at the end of the first half, Kylian Mbappe was fouled in the box.
Álex Moreno pushed him and tripped him with his knee, the contact is clear and a penalty should have been awarded“. Ounahi then scored for 1-0 (min. 45), and in the second half, Mbappe restored equality on the scoreboard, from the penalty (67).
