{"id":147733,"date":"2024-02-05T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/05\/carlo-ancelotti-bites-back-at-xavi-and-joan-laporta-over-referee-comments\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:43:12","slug":"carlo-ancelotti-bites-back-at-xavi-and-joan-laporta-over-referee-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/05\/carlo-ancelotti-bites-back-at-xavi-and-joan-laporta-over-referee-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlo Ancelotti bites back at Xavi and Joan Laporta over referee comments \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has said he will not \u2018sink\u2019 to the level of Barcelona head coach Xavi and club president Joan Laporta regarding their recent comments over the broadcast of refereeing decisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laporta has accused Madrid of \u2018influencing the competition\u2019 as their in-house TV channel regularly highlights refereeing mistakes, all the while Barca are still implicated in the Negreira scandal over secret payments made to a former officiating chief.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Laporta\u2019s gripe with\u00a0Madrid\u00a0on Friday, Xavi replied: \u201cI share the president\u2019s words 100%\u2026[the videos] influence the competition completely, week after week. A blind person can see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Madrid\u2019s 1-1 draw with rivals Atletico Madrid, Ancelotti refused to be drawn in on Xavi and Laporta\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a professional, and as a professional, I don\u2019t want to sink to that level, out of respect to Spanish football,\u201d Ancelotti said. \u201cDon\u2019t ask me about that anymore. I don\u2019t want to sink [to that]. It isn\u2019t a level for professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ancelotti\u00a0was, however, once more asked about Laporta\u2019s rhetoric, retorting: \u201cI already said, I won\u2019t sink to that level.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/01hnway0zsccdt2x930h.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Xavi Hernandez, Joan Laporta\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Laporta and Xavi were in agreement \/ Quality Sport Images\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Xavi\u00a0has since tried to make peace with Ancelotti over this war of words, showing his respect for the Italian after Barcelona won 3-1 at Alaves on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t say anything to Ancelotti,\u201d Xavi said. \u201cI have a very good relationship with him. He may have felt pressured by my words. It doesn\u2019t go towards him. All the respect for Carlo Ancelotti.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona\u00a0made up some ground in their desperate attempts to retain their La Liga title at the weekend, with the gap on first-place Madrid closing to eight points. Xavi\u2019s men are now third, two points clear of Atletico in fourth and five ahead of Athletic Club in fifth.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-324-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-818295\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has said he will not \u2018sink\u2019 to the level of Barcelona head coach Xavi and club president Joan Laporta regarding their recent comments over the broadcast of refereeing decisions. Laporta has accused Madrid of \u2018influencing the competition\u2019 as their in-house TV channel regularly highlights refereeing mistakes, all the while Barca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Carlo Ancelotti bites back at Xavi and Joan Laporta over referee comments \u2013 - 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\/2024\/02\/05\/carlo-ancelotti-bites-back-at-xavi-and-joan-laporta-over-referee-comments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carlo Ancelotti bites back at Xavi and Joan Laporta over referee comments \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has said he will not \u2018sink\u2019 to the level of Barcelona head coach Xavi and club president Joan Laporta regarding their recent comments over the broadcast of refereeing decisions. 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