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Toni Kroos does not usually confront referees and protest.
The German of Real Madrid is considered a very calm player, who almost never drags, fights or argues.
But last Sunday, in Real Madrid's game against Sevilla, Kroos was shown a yellow card in the 35th minute after protesting vehemently in front of referee Diaz de Mara, who whistled for Kroos' foul on Isaac Romero
in the replay. It was clearly a Sevilla player who collided with Kroos, who actually tried to move away and avoid contact.
It didn't help him, a foul was whistled against him, and he got angry on the field, argued with the referee, and actually the one who calmed him down was Sergio Ramos, his rival from Sevilla and his former friend.
Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos is furious with the referee/GettyImages, JAVIER SORIANO / AFP
stood a meter from the event.
The judge/Reuters
It should be noted that on social networks, Barcelona fans claimed that Real's winning goal against Sevilla was illegal, because it was distinguished by a lift towards the box (which was deflected to Luka Modric, who unleashed a perfect kick into the net), but according to Kroos, the referee was against Real.
"I think in the first half all the borderline decisions were whistled against us," said Cross, "even in the moves where there was nothing. What made me so angry about the yellow card I received was that the referee was actually a meter away from the move. It was crazy. Basically, I was trying to get away from the opponent . I see him start to dribble in his zone and I can see he wants to collide with me. So I even move away so that he doesn't have much contact with me, but he whistles a foul. That was just the icing on the cake. God sees everything and probably injured the referee's foot . There were 80,000 spectators and everyone was disappointed with their judgment."
Cross added that "we had two or three really good chances just before the referee stopped the game because he was injured. The referee really did everything wrong, he even got injured at the worst moment for him to stop the game. You really have to say that the fourth referee is a lot of referee Better than Diaz de Mara. He did a good job."
Sergio Ramos tries to calm down Toni Kroos in Real Madrid's match against Sevilla/screenshot, from the TV broadcasts
As mentioned, Sergio Ramos was the one who calmed down Kroos for fear that he would receive the second yellow.
"They wouldn't have given me a second yellow card," said Cross, "at that moment I felt everything was under control. It's nice of Sergio Ramos to pay attention to it like that. He's been in this situation many times and he knows it. Only with him it's usually a foul, And he's just as upset," Cross concluded.
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