An online petition calling for Barcelona's 6-1 win over Paris
Saint-Germain in the Champions League to be replayed has gained over
180,000 signatures.
The victory on Wednesday at the Nou Camp carried Barcelona through to
the quarter-finals 6-5 on aggregate, with Sergi Roberto scoring the
clinching goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
Real Madrid supporter Luis Melendo Olmedo began the petition on Friday,
citing a string of what he felt were mistakes by referee Deniz Aytekin,
and by Sunday afternoon the number of backers for his campaign had
reached six figures.
The petition on change.org states: 'I want to request a replaying of the Barcelona-PSG match.'
It then lists the reason as being: 'Incidents that seriously damaged
PSG. As a consequence of the refereeing of the German Deniz Aytekin who
benefited Barcelona with his actions and his refereeing.
'That is why I question the aptitude of the referee for his serious
mistakes made during the match. I present evidence to anyone who wants
to see them.'
The petition then lists a succession of incidents that its founder
considers Aytekin to have got wrong, beginning with Barcelona's opening
goal through Luis Suarez, which it says should have been disallowed for
offside.

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