Next Sunday, Real Madrid will find Barça in a determining shock for the end of the season, and on the side of Mundo Deportivo as in Sport, the two big Catalan media, we are already tense. With a subject today: Jude Belligham.
The English midfielder of Real is pointed out for an arbitral controversy during the match between Real Madrid and Celta Vigo (3-2). In the first half, when Real led 2-0, Bellingham made a brutal intervention on iron López, hitting his foot with his crampons at the heel.
A deserved red for Bellingham just before the Clasico?
Referee Gil Manzano, well placed, chose to inflict a simple yellow card instead of a direct expulsion. This decision provoked strong criticism, many observers believing that English should have been expelled, as the tackle was dangerous.
-The Var, for its part, did not ask for a revision of the action, because at the time of contact, the foot of López was not on the ground. A decision far from harmless. If Bellingham had been expelled, he would have missed the Crucial Clasico against Barça in Montjuïc, a decisive match for the Liga title race.
A decision disputed nevertheless validated by ex-Arbitre Iturralde González, on the Cadena Ser, who estimated that the fault was quite light and that it justified only a yellow, stressing that the Bellingham sole had only touched the player superficially. On the other hand, social networks have largely debated the gravity of the intervention, many believing that the red was deserved.
To summarize
Jude Bellingham escaped an expulsion after a violent fault on iron López in the match against Celta Vigo. The referee only gave a yellow card, a controversial decision. If he had been expelled, he would have missed the Clasico against Barça, a key match for the title race.
