“The decision is a dirty and red one for Muriqi”

He Mallorca-Girona This Saturday was marked by the expulsion 28 minutes into the match of Muriqi after a difficult entrance to Bryan Gil. At first, Hernandez Maeso He didn’t even call for action and let the game play out, but then he got the call from the VOR room where he was. Figueroa Vazquez: “I recommend you go see the action.” At the same time the Extremaduran referee goes to the monitor, he asks for calm on the field of play: “calm down. I will go to him, and I will go alone.” In the background you can hear someone from the Balearic bench telling him that the Kosovo striker is “protecting the ball.”

As soon as he reaches the monitor: “Let’s see, tell me” and that is the explanation of the Andalusian VAR referee: “I will show you that the image has stopped and is now in dynamic mode.” It is in the dynamics where the impact of the Mallorca player with his boot on the leg of Bryan Gil. Hernandez Maeso asking for a “bigger image” and then “okay, give me another one. The short one from before. Right, give me the first one. Okay, the decision is a dirty and red one Muriqi“.

Aggression cannot be considered when there is a ball involved

The expulsion recorded by the Extremaduran school in the referee’s report: “for making a tackle with excessive force in the dispute for the ball.”

This situation certainly determines that the forward of the Balearic club will only face one match in the weekly meeting of Disciplinary Committee. The key is in the fact that the referee states that “it is in dispute for the ball.”

He Disciplinary Code literally states that “Direct expulsion during a match shall entail the imposition of the penalty of suspension for at least one match, unless the fact constitutes a more serious offense, with a corresponding monetary accessory.”

In the second point where he added that “In cases where the expulsion from the field of play is due to situations where the football player will not have the possibility to fight the ball, the suspension will be at least two. games.” Something that does not happen in this case because there is a ball involved.

A game sanction for his brush with Jaime Mata

This penalty is almost identical to that already imposed by Disciplinary Committee of a match for his comb over Jaime Mata in the clash between The Palms and Majorca. As we already told MD, the Galician referee said in the minutes that the expulsion happened for “making an offensive gesture by making a comb, showing the middle finger, and in reaction to a provocative gesture of the opposing player.” In Mata’s case, it was “Arousing an opponent by making high gestures by celebrating a defensive action in front of him, causing an immediate reaction that led to his dismissal.” It was last November 23. On Wednesday of that week, the Disciplinary Committee punished him with one match for what it considered conduct contrary to good sporting order.