Carlo Ancelotti took a massive shot at Xavi Hernandez who claims La Liga is adulterated.

On Friday, coach Xavi Hernandez shocked everyone when he confirmed that La Liga referees were favoring Real Madrid.

“I didn’t like that they conditioned the referees. They’re doing it every week. I don’t like it. I think it adulterates the competition. The referees go in conditioned and we are seeing it. I’m neither the president of the Federation nor the president of La Liga. It surprises me that we admit that, that we allow it. I’ve said it completely adulterates the competition. It’s a reality. Even a blind person can see it.” the Spanish strategist shared with Goal.

For his part, Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti was very angry at Xavi’s statements. The 64-year-old military leader affirmed that he would never behave unprofessionally like his colleague.

“I believe that I am a professional, and as a professional, I don’t want to lower this level out of respect for Spanish football. So, please don’t ask me more about this because I don’t want to lower it. It’s not a level for professionals.” Ancelotti said before the match against Atletico Madrid tomorrow morning.

Last week, after a 3-5 defeat to Villarreal at home, Xavi announced that he would resign as Barca head coach at the end of the season. Xavi and his students have shown disappointing performance this season when they ranked only 3rd on the La Liga rankings and had to stop early in the King’s Cup.

Besides, Barca also failed to win the Spanish Super Cup championship after being crushed 1-4 by Real in the final.