The penalty where Pepelu was exposed after hitting Kirian in the face

The complicated situation that the Valencia is evident in the reaction of Pepelu last night in his self-expulsion after 69 minutes of meetings in his action with Kyrian. That’s an incident Jesus Gil Manzano recorded in the referee’s report: “For repelling a push from an opponent, striking him in the face with his hand, when the ball is not in play”:

In the absence of his decision tomorrow Disciplinary Committeethe midfielder has been exposed to at least two suspension matches. This as long as they consider it as violence in the game, according to article 130 and says the following: “If the action described in the previous paragraph took place on the edge of the game, it was not possible to dispute the ball or the game stopped. “, will be punished by a suspension of two to three games, without prejudice to the provisions of article 103 of this Code.”

And it is precisely article 103 that clearly speaks of aggression. In this case the player Valencia was exposed to at least four games for his action: “Attack on another, without causing damage, which is considered as a determining factor of the malicious element, which is required in this violation, the event that the action takes place while the game is stopped or at a distance where it is taking place that it is impossible to intervene in an incident, it will incur a suspension of four to twelve” matches.

Throwing lighters and plastic whistles

I found out that it can also result in a financial penalty because Gil Manzano states in the minutes that “in the 72nd minute the object throwing protocol had to be activated as several objects were thrown at a player from the right back who was standing in front of the locker room exit. The Palms lying in that place, does not affect any of them. The match continued without a repeat of this behavior. “Among the items recovered was a plastic whistle and lighter.”

Fortunately, and as the minutes themselves say, it did not affect anyone. The normal thing is that tomorrow, according to the precedents from the same period, the disciplinary body of RFEF consider this incident as a minor violation according to Article 117 related to the minor change of the order of the match, where it states that “When, on the occasion of a match, events occur such as of specified in article 15 of this ordinance and classified according to the disciplinary body as minor, the responsible club will be fined up to 602 euros.”