The Competition Team has decided not to forgive Barcelona’s Brazilian striker Vitor Roque. The federative body has chosen to maintain the second yellow card it saw in the Alavés field and not respond to Barça’s appeal. The Barcelona club will go to the Appeal Committee so that the footballer can be exempt from that warning and be available on Sunday against Granada. In the event that the Appeal does not change the Competition decision, the striker will be out of the match.
Likewise, Competition has not admitted Girona’s claims and has imposed a two-match ban on coach Míchel and one on defender Daley Blind, who were sent off against Real Sociedad. The coach, with a direct red, and the center, with two yellows. In this way, unless Girona goes to Appeal and then their appeal is successful, neither coach Míchel will be able to sit on the Bernabéu bench nor will Blind be available.
Going by parts. In the case of Vitor Roque, the resolution indicates the following: “This Committee considers that the images provided by the alleging club fail to demonstrate the existence of a manifest material error, the existence of a contact being evident (“at most a simple friction”, the appearing party acknowledges in his writing).
“In other words: there is no clear evidence that the cautioned player did not carry out the action that was recorded in the minutes. The repeated viewing of the images, in short, has not allowed this Committee to conclude, beyond all doubt, that the action did not occur as described by the referee and, ultimately, prove the material error manifest in the referee’s report,” he continues in his writing Competition.
As for Girona, Míchel is given two games for protesting an action in which the Vallecano coach stated that there was no law of the advantage applied to a foul against Savinho. As the coach explained at the end of the match, there were no insults or disrespect. Míchel will not be able to be on the bench against Madrid or Athletic. For the committee “the facts recorded in the minutes have not been distorted in any way by the alleging Club.” Martínez Munuera’s minutes indicated that the expulsion had been for “repeatedly and ostensibly protesting one of my decisions.”
For Blind, a game sanction for “conducting making repeated observations” or, what is the same, asking Gil Manzano why he only gave two minutes of added time. According to Competition, regarding Blind, “the images provided allow us to see that in fact the cautioned footballer addresses the referee at the end of the match and unequivocally formulates observations during a period of time that is not short, the content of which has not been accredited by the alleging club, and therefore this Committee cannot consider the presumption of veracity of the minutes to be distorted.”
