The situation
The Competition Committee met on Thursday to issue the corresponding sanctions after the last day, but left the resolution that affects the FC Barcelona players Robert Lewandowski and Gerard Piqué on hold until today, as it did not affect the immediate competition. The punishment for both players will be known today and in Barcelona they are pessimistic about what the Polish striker can do. From the club, once the minutes drawn up by Gil Manzano have been seen, they take it for granted that the striker will most likely be sanctioned with a match for the double yellow card plus two for contempt. That would mean that Lewandowski would miss the derby against Espanyol and the departures of the Barcelona team against Atlético de Madrid and Betis. A sanction that would be served in LaLiga as it was considered minor would no longer affect either the Cup or the Super Cup. According to the Competition regulations, since they are two minor sanctions, they will always have to comply in the same competition. In other words, in the League and it will never affect the Copa del Rey that Barcelona will begin to play in the first days of January. The match of sanction for double yellow is final and now we have to wait to see how the Committee judges Lewandowski’s gesture when he was sent off. If they stick to what the referee wrote in the minutes, the outlook is dire, although Barça will present allegations because they will base their defense on the fact that the gesture, as the striker said after picking up the Golden Shoe last Wednesday, was aimed at his coach and not the referee.
The details
However, the wording of the minutes does not leave much room for doubt: “Once expelled and when he was heading towards the exit of the field, the player twice made a gesture of disapproval of the referee’s decision, consisting of putting his finger to the nose, and then pointing with the thumb towards the referee . When he was about to leave the field of play, he repeated the gesture