Bellingham suspended for two matches for red card in Valencia

Jude Bellingham was handed a two-game suspension for the game against Valencia by the RFEF Disciplinary Committee.

MADRID — Disciplinary Committee of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) sanctioned two games English player Real Madrid Jude Bellinghamfor his sending off at the end of last day’s match with a straight red card against the team Valencia.

Committee resolution denies the allegations real Madrid in defense Bellingham and imposes a two-match penalty on the Madrid player for disrespectful or inconsiderate behavior towards the referees, with an additional fine of 700 euros for the club and 600 euros for the player, in accordance with article 144 of the RFEF Disciplinary Code.

Bellingham headed Brahim Diaz’s cross into the net, which would have made the score 2-3 in his side’s favor as the referee signaled the end of the match without calling a goal, and was later sent off with a straight red card for According to the arbitration report, the header “in aggressive attitude and shouting.”

“After the match ended, while still on the field, he ran up to me in an aggressive and shouting manner, repeating several times: “It’s a damn goal,” Gil noted in the Yabloni protocol.

Real Madrid argued that there was clear material error, denying the aggressive attitude the referee attributed to the player on the scoresheet and claiming that Bellingham only approached the referee once, not multiple times, and provided video evidence of the facts.

The club also stated that the expression “it’s a bloody goal”, which translates to “it’s a bloody goal”, is offensive or insulting, and stated that it would be neither if the literal translation (“it’s a bloody goal”) had been chosen goal”). goal”), since these are expressions that are quite accepted in ordinary language.

In the Committee’s view, re-examination of the images does not allow one to “find beyond a reasonable doubt that the action giving rise to the exclusion did not occur as described by the judge and ultimately prove the material error expressed in the arbitration record.” .

In particular, he states that he was not allowed to infer that the player did not shout because he was never heard, and that he did not repeat the expression “it’s a fucking goal” multiple times because the segment lasted 11 seconds. and does not show what happened immediately before and that his attitude was not aggressive.

“All of this (the player’s tone and attitude, as well as the number of repetitions of the phrase) is critical to contextualizing the action and effect of specific words spoken by the player, beyond their literal translation. If this disciplinary body accepts the club’s version that does not reach, as stated, the required threshold of proof, then this will be a substitution of the work of a judge that does not correspond to it,” the resolution says.

The sanction against Bellingham, which can be appealed to the Appeal Committee, will prevent him from playing the next two days of the League: next Sunday against Celta at the Bernabeu and on Saturday the 16th against Osasuna in Pamplona.