Guillermo Almada lashes out at refereeing after Leagues Cup exit | OneFootball

Club América were eliminated by Monterrey in the Leagues Cup 2026 semifinals.

As has already become customary when facing this team, Las Águilas lost in a match full of refereeing controversy, with a penalty not awarded in América’s favor and another wrongly given against the team.

Both incidents happened at key moments in the match; in the first half, with the game still tied 0-0, Henry Martín was stepped on inside the box, something the referee did not see and VAR chose not to call him over to review.

And when Club América were winning and controlling the match, the referee decided to award a penalty to Monterrey in a play where it is clearly seen that there was no contact, and once again VAR did not step in to try to correct the bad decision..

Guillermo Almada blasted the refereeing.

“We had already been told about (Erick Yair) Miranda’s history in the VAR. I wasn’t at the club, but he has a history of greatly harming the club. There was a penalty in our favor where VAR did not intervene, and another where it should have intervened, because the one who goes into the leg is the opponent. It ended up being decisive in something where there has to be justice. It’s not a mistake, the VAR decision is a horror. This ended up being decisive in the match,” were his words.

Almada pointed directly at the referee in charge of VAR, Erick Yair Miranda, and apparently the board had already told him that he had previously harmed América, and it happened again.

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