They wanted to play against Benfica: Real Madrid considers the repetition of the draw a “flagrant adulteration”

The Real Madrid considers a “flagrant adulteration”, and so it has been transferred to UEFA, the complete repetition of the draw for the round of 16 of the Champions League after the problems arisen in the extraction of the balls.

The Spanish club alleges that their pairing with Portuguese Benfica occurred before these errors occurred.

The problem arose when, after Villarreal’s ball left, former Russian player Andrey Arshavin took Manchester United’s as a rival, when both teams could not face each other, which had already been measured in the group stage.

Later, Manchester United’s ball was not introduced between Atlético’s possible rivals, but Liverpool’s, which they already faced in the group stage, did.

Due to this “technical problem with the software”, as UEFA put it, the draw had to be completely repeated. This angered Real Madrid, who considered this act as a “flagrant adulteration”, according to the EFE agency.

Real Madrid has gone in two hours from facing Benfica in the round of 16 of the Champions League to being paired with Paris Saint-Germain after the repetition of the draw, which means seeing Kylian Mbappé at the Santiago Bernabéu, meet again to the Argentine Leo Messi and to be able to see Sergio Ramos in the rival team.