The Polish attacker will miss the duels against Atlético de Madrid, Getafe and Girona unless Barça obtains a new precaution in an ordinary court
Bad news for Barcelona. The Administrative Sports Court (TAD) has upheld the three-match penalty imposed on Robert Lewandowski for his exclusion from the game against Osasuna on November 8, which corresponds to the fourteenth day of competition.
In this way, the Polish attacker will miss his team’s confrontations against Atlético de Madrid (January 8), Getafe (January 22) and Girona (January 29), although Barça has the opportunity to once again resort to ordinary justice in search to a new precaution like the one that allowed the striker to play the derby against Espanyol last Saturday.
A controversial route that the Barça club successfully used, but which led Espanyol to request the challenge for mismatching that New Year’s Eve match at the Camp Nou and was resolved with a draw at one.
The parakeet entity argued that the attacker’s presence in Warsaw, possibly after Madrid’s Central Administrative Dispute Court Number 2 granted him the precautionary measure, compromised the integrity of the match. “Before the start of the match, the club informed in good faith both the referee of the match, Mr. Mateu Lahoz, and the RFEF itself, of the presence in the rival eleven of footballer Robert Lewandowski, who was serving a sentence following his expulsion for double yellow on the previous day of the national championship,” Espanyol said in the statement announcing their decision to contest the match, where they emphasized their view that Lewandowski’s line-up represented a “flagrant injustice” that “risked in questions “the essence of the League and said that” injustice “was based” on a hasty resolution and with obvious legal flaws.
Nevertheless, in the preview of the cup match that Barça will count against Intercity next Wednesday, Xavi Hernández said he hoped to be able to count on Lewandowski for Sunday’s league match against Atlético. “Yes, I am confident that he can play against Atlético de Madrid,” said the Egarense coach. For this, Barça would again have to resort to ordinary justice and receive a new precautionary measure. It should be remembered that the sanction does not affect the Copa del Rey or the Spanish Super Cup.
Lewandowski was sent off in the 31st minute of the game between Barça and Osasuna in El Sadar on the last day of the competition played before the break due to the World Cup in Qatar. The Pole, who had already seen the yellow card in the 11th minute, received a second card after half an hour of play and left the field with a finger in front of his nose in what the Competition Commission interpreted as a gesture of contempt for the referee of that ring, Jesús Gil Manzano from Extremadura. For this reason, he received a two-game suspension that was added to the derivative of his expulsion.
Barça claimed that Lewandowski had only shown “his dissatisfaction with the treatment received” and assured the striker that the gesture was aimed at Xavi Hernández, but both the appeals committee and the Administrative Court of Sport rejected that argument, so the club headed by Joan Laporta went to the Central Controversial Court of Madrid, which granted the warrant. Now the TAD endorses its position and Lewandowski must fully comply with the sanction.
Source: La Verdad
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