{"id":404009,"date":"2011-04-28T11:45:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/gerard-pique-real-madrid-did-not-want-to-play-football\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:45:49","slug":"gerard-pique-real-madrid-did-not-want-to-play-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/gerard-pique-real-madrid-did-not-want-to-play-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Pique: Real Madrid Did Not Want To Play Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has criticized Real Madrid, claiming Jose Mourinho&#8217;s men did not try to play football during the Catalan club&#8217;s 2-0 victory in the first-leg of their Champions League semi-final tie on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi&#8217;s brace saw Pep Guardiola&#8217;s team take two valuable away goals back to Camp Nou with the rivals set to meet for the second-leg next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid complained about refereeing decisions going against them after Pepe was given a straight red for a challenge on Daniel Alves, but Pique was having none of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey think the only way to stop us is playing like this ill-tempered football,\u201d the defender told Sky Sports. \u201cThey didn\u2019t want to play football, they didn\u2019t want to keep the ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe red card was a red card. He Pepe tackled really strong and for Daniel Alves it could be painful and after that there was another reaction, I think Marcelo against Pedro \u2013 it was another red card.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe referee can\u2019t see it, but I think that finally we are really happy for the win and we\u2019ve taken a really good step to go to the final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Manchester United centerback and his team-mates will be back in league action at the weekend when they travel to the Basque country to face Real Sociedad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_79-150x90.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/sports\/201104\/156754.php\" title=\"Gerard Pique: Real Madrid Did Not Want To Play Football\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerard Pique: Real Madrid Did Not Want To Play Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has criticized Real Madrid, claiming Jose Mourinho&#8217;s men did not try to play football during the Catalan club&#8217;s 2-0 victory in the first-leg of their Champions League semi-final tie on Wednesday evening. Lionel Messi&#8217;s brace saw Pep Guardiola&#8217;s team take two valuable away goals back to Camp Nou with the rivals set to meet for the second-leg next Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gerard Pique: Real Madrid Did Not Want To Play Football - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/gerard-pique-real-madrid-did-not-want-to-play-football\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gerard Pique: Real Madrid Did Not Want To Play Football - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has criticized Real Madrid, claiming Jose Mourinho&#039;s men did not try to play football during the Catalan club&#039;s 2-0 victory in the first-leg of their Champions League semi-final tie on Wednesday evening. 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