Referee Mateu Lahoz apologized for ruling out a good Lionel Messi goal that would have given FC Barcelona the La Liga title in 2014, according to Elvio Paolorosso, who was part of Tata Martino’s staff at Barça.
“Messi scored a goal that would have given us the title and the referee ruled it out,” he told TNT Sports. ”We were crying in the dressing room and the referee came to apologize.”
Barcelona needed a win to secure the trophy, and with the score at 1-1, the Catalans would have only needed one more goal to snatch it away from Atlético Madrid - if they could hold onto the hypothetical 2-1 lead.