The Competition Committee, in its meeting yesterday, did not listen to the reasons of Barcelona and Girona and maintained the decisions in accordance with the minutes of Alavés-Barcelona and Girona-Real Sociedad, respectively. Thus, he decided to keep the controversial second yellow that Vitor Roque saw and which meant his expulsion. In this way, the Brazilian will not be able to play in Barcelona's match against Granada on Sunday, although the Blaugrana club is going to appeal to an Appeal.
On Monday, Barça presented an appeal to have the second card removed from their player, providing video evidence and ensuring in their allegations that in the action he barely touched the rival. The letter has not had effect because the disciplinary committee considers that there is no obvious error in the writing of the minutes and what the images show that happened in Mendizorroza is reflected in the minutes.
In the minutes, Martínez Munuera explains the yellows like this. “Roque was cautioned in the 67th minute for recklessly hitting an opponent with his arm.” Five minutes later, the Valencian referee sent him off after giving him the second yellow card “for recklessly hitting an opponent's leg with his foot.”
In its resolution, the Committee has considered that the images provided by the club "fail to demonstrate the existence of a manifest material error, with the existence of contact being evident ("at most a simple friction occurs," the club acknowledges in its writing). appearing). 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, to prove the material error manifest in the story. arbitration”, it is pointed out.
The Competition Committee in turn rejected Girona's appeals and therefore imposed a two-game ban on the coach, Míchel, who will not be able to sit on the Bernabéu bench, and one on the Dutch defender Blind, who was shown the card with the match already finalized. The Montilivi club has decided not to file an appeal.
The Girona coach was sent off in the 88th minute of the match against Real Sociedad. Competition, given the allegations presented by the club, has rejected Girona's request to annul the expulsion considering that the "facts recorded in the minutes have not been in any way distorted by the alleging club and are clearly subsumable in the infraction typified in article 127 of the RFEF Disciplinary Code.”
Girona ruled out presenting allegations to remove the card from Yangel Herrera, who will also be out because she is completing the yellow card cycle.
In relation to the yellow card that Blind saw, Girona alleged that there was a manifest material error in the referee's report because they considered that the player's actions did not constitute an infraction since a technical observation was not made repeatedly, but instead He asked the referee for clarification about the added time. The same strategy was used with Míchel and it was alleged that although the coach left the technical area and showed his displeasure, in no case did he address the referee directly nor was there any repetition.
The response given by Competition is that in order to address this “manifest material error in the arbitration record, elements of evidence must be provided that unequivocally, beyond all reasonable doubt, proves either the non-existence of the fact reflected in the record or its patent arbitrariness”, which according to the Committee, was not done.
