Barcelona will enchantment a two-game suspension handed to educate Ronaldo Koeman that may rule him out of a crucial conflict towards Atlético Madrid within the wide-open La Liga title race.
Koeman was proven a pink card throughout Barcelona’s 2-1 dwelling loss to Granada on Thursday for his use of what the referee thought of disrespectful language. That defeat price his group the prospect to take the lead of the Spanish league.
The Spanish soccer federation elevated the obligatory one-game ban to 2 video games after reviewing the case, prompting an enchantment from Barcelona.
“According to the referee report, I disrespected the assistant referee and for me that is not correct,” Koeman stated Saturday. “To disrespect is to insult, and I used to be solely commenting on a number of performs in a respectful method.
“The sending off bothers me because it is not fair,” the Dutchman continued. “We will have to see what happens (regarding the appeal).”
Referee Pablo González recorded in his match report that Koeman was proven a pink card for saying to the referee assistant “what a character” after having been warned a number of occasions to look at his language. The federation’s competitors committee then added a second sport to the suspension on Friday evening.
That would hold Koeman out of the dugout for Barcelona’s match at Valencia on Sunday and subsequent spherical’s sport towards Atlético at Camp Nou that may straight affect the title combat.
Atlético, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla are all in rivalry to win essentially the most disputed league title in years.