Santi Cañizares stopped by Despierta San Francisco this Tuesday to analyze the current sports news, marked by that derby that Atlético de Madrid won and the moment of Barcelona

Refereeing in the derby. “ For me the referee was fine. If he had sent off Giménez I wouldn’t have said he was wrong either, but for me it was more yellow than red. In Rudiger’s offside, it is evident to me that he intervened in the play.”

Real Madrid. “Madrid arrived, but they were bad in defense, allowing those crosses and occupying the area poorly. The area is not occupied based on where the ball is, but rather where the opponent is. Furthermore, the best goalkeeper in the world is not there and one of the “Better centre-backs either. The others are not bad, but Courtois intervenes 50 times more than Kepa in aerial balls. Militao reads balls into the area very well, Alaba was not good, he did not make good decisions.”

Raúl or Xabi. “To choose a coach you have to do a much more exhaustive follow-up than I can do. How am I going to get involved, I have no arguments. They are two emerging coaches who are called to train in the elite if they decide.”

Kepa. “For me he is top in the world, he is among the 10 best goalkeepers in the world. But he has come to replace the best, Courtois, and he has no substitute. Is Kepa a great goalkeeper? Yes. Does Courtois have a substitute, is there someone That he could look like Courtois, that you put him in the goal and it doesn’t show? No. Courtois is number 1 and is the one with the most winning actions in a season. Kepa perhaps could have intervened in a cross if he was further out of the goal, not under the posts. But they are not his mistakes, the errors come much earlier, before the play is generated. He should be a little more outside and be encouraged to intervene in the aerial game. Under the goal it is “A guy who manages distances very well and takes extraordinary balls.”

Girona. “I don’t think they’re going to finish second, I don’t think they’re going to last in the Champions League. They’re a team that sets the goal of being in the first division and that goal is more than met with that coach, the way he works and with the club organization he has. He is a success in all cases. From there on, wherever he can go, he is going to have a lot of fight. I don’t see him in the Champions League, are we crazy? But if he reaches the Champions League I will take off my hat 45 times”.