Canales: “I can’t believe this situation”

He Real Betis will go to Civitas Metropolitano this Sunday with a big loss in their starting eleven, as the famous Nabil Fekir -who will not play again until next season- was joined in the last hours by Youssouf Sabaly, injured on Tuesday with the team of Senegal, and Sergio Canaleswho was suspended with a four-game ban for criticizing referee Mateu Lahoz, who sent him off in October at the new Mirandilla against Cádiz for the first time in his career.

Canales already served a one-match ban after Cádiz’s relegation on matchday 10 and he did exactly that on matchday 11, against Atlético de Madrid at the Benito Villamarín. By referring months later to that expulsion -in February, after Betis-Valladolid on matchday 22-, Canales is now punished for four games and will be low again against Atlético, because the Appeal or the TAD to the appeals of the Betic judges, who plan to use ordinary justice so that Canales does not comply with the remaining three matches of the penalty, because the first against Atlético has to comply by not giving time for the ordinary court of justice to paralyze the punishment, ratified on Friday afternoon.

Sergio Canales, after knowing this Friday that the Appeal or the TAD did not attend to the resources of Betis, as well as the request for a precautionary suspension of the penalty, does not believe what happened in a note he published on his social networks: “My most sincere and deep thanks to my president, my club and my fans for supporting me as before in a situation that, even now, I cannot believe. I said it’s in his time and I repeat it again: my conscience is very clear and I will never do anything wrong that could harm my institution, knowing the responsibility that comes with being one of the captains of something as big as Real Betis Football”.