Updated:01/18/2021 09:54h
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Leo messi was expelled yesterday, for the first time with the shirt of the Barcelona, at the end of the Spain Supercup that Athletic ended up taking in extra time. The direct red card came after a hit to Asier Villalibre two minutes before the end of the match, when he slapped the Athletic player in the race. After the VAR review, the match referee, Gil ManzanoHe had no doubts and sent him straight to the locker room. The Argentine is now exposed to a sanction that will make him miss the following games.
First of all, this is what was written in the act on the action: “Hitting an opponent with the arm using excessive force while the ball is in play but not at a distance from being played.” This wording by Gil Manzano could lessen the penalty for Messi and leave it in just two games.
It would then be considered as that the fault is slight and would fall from 1 to 3 games. In this case, the article 115 of the RFEF Disciplinary Code: “Using dangerous gambling causing damage that impairs the faculties of the offended person, will be sanctioned with suspension of one to three games or for a period of up to one month”. Or article 123, with the same sanction: «Occur in a violent way during the game or as a direct consequence of some set of the same, provided that the action creates risk, but does not produce harmful or harmful consequences, it will be sanctioned with suspension of one to three games or for a period of up to a month ».
However, if the Competition Committee considered the action as an assault, the sanction would be more severe, from 4 to 12 games. This is how the article 98: «Attacking another, without causing injury, considering as a determining factor of the fraudulent element, necessary in this offense, the circumstance that the action takes place while the game is stopped or at such a distance from where it is developed that it is impossible to intervene in a launch of that one, it will be sanctioned with suspension of four to twelve parties ».
Whatever the sanction, Messi will comply with it in the following games, almost certainly losing the duel against him. Cornellá Cup and against Elche in League.
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At the end of the game, the other protagonist of the action, VillalibreHe gave his opinion on the play: «I don’t think we have to get into controversy, all the teams make fouls and we have done them too, the key is not to give up. Messi? I put my body in so that it doesn’t go forward, he got angry, he put his hand in my face and I think it was clear aggression ».
At Barcelona they came out in defense of their player, justifying their reaction by the continuous fouls he suffered during the final. «They are the last moments of the game … You are in a lot of contact with the rivals. Sometimes it happens, you can’t tell him anything. I think Messi is a clean player, who usually receives, not give, “he said Guillermo Love. I understand what happened. I don’t know how many fouls they have made. The player tries to dribble and cannot. because every time you need them. If I excuse you? I have to see the play », he justified Ronald Koeman.
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