Ratiu starts the year with the left » One step away from a penalty!

In the first match of the year, Andrei Rațiu had two important moments. In the 12th minute, the Getafe players requested a penalty for a dangerous action by the Romanian international in his own box.

VAR decided that there was no contact, so no penalty

He cleared the ball with his foot, but at the same time he appeared to hit an opponent, Liso, in the head. The phase was checked in the VAR room, and in the end it was decided that there was no contact and, therefore, no penalty.

Also in the first half, Rațiu perfectly returned a ball to his teammate Alvaro, but he, from a promising position, sent it over the crossbar. Rayo opened the scoring in extra time of the first half through De Frutos, and Arambarri closed out the scoring in extra time of a game that the daily Marca wrote was “the hangover after Christmas”.

The same brand scored the right defender of the Romanian national team with one star, which means “weak”. Instead, the other newspaper that appears in Madrid, AS, gave it two aces (good). Coach Inigo Perez, for his part, was not satisfied with the evolution of any of his players.

Inigo Perez: “It's a difficult day to accept. I told my players”

“It's a hard day to take in. We don't have time now to process what happened, it's going to be a few hours before we do a cold snap. I told my players that Arambarri is very dangerousthat he comes from the second line and scores free kicks. That's exactly what happened. He is their specialist in such situations.

It's not something to brag about. But I just watch more games than the guys and try to help them. But it's not something to be proud of now”, commented Rayo's technician, himself in a delicate situation.

After the draw with Getafe, his team reached eight consecutive games without a win in the championship!