{"id":18915,"date":"2026-04-14T17:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=18915"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:32:05","slug":"champions-league-barcelona-handball-claim-against-atletico-madrid-rejected-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=18915","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Barcelona handball claim against Atletico Madrid rejected | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Barca were unhappy with an alleged handball by Atletico\u2019s Marc Pubill in quarterfinal first leg but UEFA rejects appeal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 14 Apr 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">14 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>European football governing body UEFA on Tuesday rejected Barcelona\u2019s complaint over a handball incident in their Champions League quarterfinal first leg defeat by Atletico Madrid, hours before the second leg.<\/p>\n<p>Diego Simeone\u2019s side won 2-0 at Camp Nou last week, and Barca were upset by an incident where Atletico defender Marc Pubill touched the ball with his hand after it appeared a goal kick had been passed to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(After the first leg) Barcelona filed a protest relating to a referee decision. On 13 April 2026, the UEFA Control Ethics and Disciplinary Body declared the protest to be inadmissible,\u201d said UEFA in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Five-time Champions League winners Barca said last week the decision not to award them a penalty was a \u201cmajor error\u201d which influenced the result, and were upset referee Istvan Kovacs was not told to review the incident by the VAR team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barca were unhappy with an alleged handball by Atletico\u2019s Marc Pubill in quarterfinal first leg but UEFA rejects appeal. Published On 14 Apr 202614 Apr 2026 European football governing body UEFA on Tuesday rejected Barcelona\u2019s complaint over a handball incident in their Champions League quarterfinal first leg defeat by Atletico Madrid, hours before the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}