Iturralde González backs Mourinho on Braga v Benfica: nothing at all | OneFootball

Iturralde González emphasized that the goal scored by Samuel Dahl was wrongly disallowed. On Monday, December 29, the former Spanish referee, analyzing the key moments that marked the Braga–Benfica match, considered that there was no infraction in the play involving Richard Ríos.

"There's nothing at all. There's a slight contact because there's a contest for the ball", the former FIFA referee began, explaining that the contact between the two players is part of the game, agreeing with José Mourinho's statements at the end of the match.

"The defender feels this contact and lets himself fall to the ground. If it were the other way around, if the foul was by the defender on the forward, would you call a penalty?", added Iturralde González, analyzing the play in question, at the request of the newspaper Record.

"Of course not, impossible, it couldn't be a penalty. So it can't be a foul either. Football is a contact sport, there's nothing at all", concluded the Spaniard, about the play that deprived Benfica of two important points in the fight for the championship.

"In my opinion, it was a light step during the contest for the ball. It was an accidental step while trying to gain position. I don't think it's a penalty because the ball didn't enter that area and it wasn't a reckless step", Iturralde González further commented on the alleged penalty committed by Leandro Barreiro.

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