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Uncovered: Barcelona defender Pique confronted ref 'it's always the same'

A confrontation between Barcelona defender Gerard Pique and ref Alejandro José Hernández Hernández has been made public.

Pique confronted Hernández Hernández at halftime of Saturday's 1-1 draw with Alaves.

The defender was upset after seeing a shove on Frenkie de Jong inside the Alaves penalty area be ignored by the match officials - including VAR.

El Golazo de Gol via AS reports Pique snapped: "Are you really telling me that you have checked De Jong's penalty? Has the VAR really looked at it?

"How do you want us not to be stressed with plays like this?"

When Hernández Hernández responded stating, "I don't want to put on a show", Pique reacted angrily: "It's not about setting up shows, but we're always on the wrong side of interpretations, it's always the same!"

Barca dropped more points on Saturday as they could only draw with LaLiga minnows Alaves. Despite their opponents playing the last half-hour with 10 men, Lionel Messi and his teammates were unable to secure all three points at Mendizorroza.

Jota was sent off for Alaves after the hour mark, with Antoine Griezmann scoring for Barca a minute later to cancel out Luis Rioja's opener on 31 minutes. De Jong's incident came on 35 minutes in a clash with Ximo Navarro.


- updated November 4

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