Muñiz Ruiz sends off Muriqui for the comb… and awards a free kick, which ends in a goal due to Jaime Mata’s take-take! | Relief
The Gran Canaria Stadium witnessed an absolutely surreal finale to the Las Palmas-Mallorca match. The sequence of events was as follows: in the 87th minute, with the score 2-2, Jaime Mata celebrated the action, which benefited the yellow team, by shouting “take it, take it” in the face of Muriqi, who responded to his opponent with a hairbrush. Having received a warning from VAR referee Pizarro Gomez, Galician Muñiz Ruiz came to watch the scene on the monitor. and decided to send off the Kosovo striker for the gesture, and leave Mata’s provocation yellow.
The biggest surprise was the resumption of the game: At the moment when the Gran Canaria player turned to the opponent, the referee ruled a free kick in favor of Mallorca. The Vermillions, despite the fact that such plays are rare, performed them in an extraordinary way. Morlanes opened the ball for Mojica… and the party sent a howitzer, against which Cillessen could do nothing and that became the final score 2-3.
“It’s not every day that you enjoy a free kick. I talked to my teammates about taking the kick and not Samu, and I put it in the corner,” Mojica said in an interview. DAZN. Without a doubt, Saturday was one of the strangest outcomes of a La Liga clash in recent memory.
Fabio SilvaThe Las Palmas striker was the first member of the local team to take the lead: “The referee told us it was a provocation (from Mata). In all my years of football I have never seen anything like it. He received a red card and then an opportunity to score. I didn’t understand it.” Coach Diego Martinez assured that he expects an “explanation” in the next few hours: “I hope that within a week the game will be explained to us. Tomorrow (Sunday) we will listen to the audio recordings.”
“I want to listen to the professionals and ask them to explain this to me and also the height of the foul. If it occurs laterally, why is it not performed perpendicular to a small area? I’m sure they’ll clarify. situation for us and that there will be many more actions of this type from now on. Until now I have not seen anything like this. We feel disappointed,” he added.