FC Barcelona manager Xavi Hernandez expressed his anger at the match officials following his side's controversial 1-0 loss to Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday night.
Barca suffered a second successive defeat in the Champions League as a late first-half strike by Turkey international Hakan Calhanoglu was enough to separate the two sides in the fiery clash.
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The Spaniards were left feeling hard done at the end of the match, with some feeling Calhanoglu should have been sent off for a dangerous challenge on Sergio Busquets and a Barca goal from Pedri also being ruled out by due to a handball in the build-up to the strike.
A penalty appeal was also eventually waved away upon a VAR review that took several minutes, despite Nerazzurri defender Denzel Dumfries appearing to have handled the ball in the box.
The match referee was not asked to have a look at the handball incident on the field-side monitor, a decision that left the Blaugrana boss visibly incensed.
"I'm pissed off," Xavi, who received a yellow card for his remonstrations, admitted after the match, according Movistar Plus.
"The referees should come out and explain their decisions, because we don't understand anything.
"We should not have lost this game. We deserved to win but the referee had other ideas.
"I can also tell Inter manipulated the height of the grass to slow the ball's pace, which affected our passes.
"I'm angry by what we had to live through. It is an injustice. I do not understand anything.
"He [the referee] didn't want to give me explanations at the end of the game.
"I am angry and I think it is unfair."
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The Catalan outfit now have it all to do in the return fixture against the Italian side at the Camp Nou next Tuesday – a failure to win that match will see Inter remain ahead of them in Group C, with Barca still to play Bayern Munich on 26 October.
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