The Mallorca-Espanyol arbitration is of the vermilion by a win

It is played on Sunday one of the great games of the season in the Second Division, Mallorca-Espanyol, between the leader and the second classified, both recently descended and who have exchanged their positions throughout these 24 days. But it also gets rid another battle, that of susceptibilities, which has disciplinary decisions in its sights. That another classification, the referee, only has one color, vermilion, which is precisely similar to the red one that makes Luis García Plaza's leaders in this respect very prominent.

And that, a priori, the data would not invite us to think about that clear advantage. Mallorca is the fourth team to commit the most fouls in Second, 391, while Espanyol is twenty-second and bottom in that table, with only 297 infractions. As to fouls received, the balance is almost identical, 314 and 318, respectively. But this does not translate into the chapters that can most influence when deciding a result for extra-sports arguments.

The first thing that differentiates them are penalties, which is +5 for the insular (six for, one against) and a discreet +1 for parrots (four executed, three penalized). But that's just the tip of the iceberg. The gulf between Mallorca and Espanyol is located in the expulsions.

Until ten of the vermilion adversaries have been pushed aside prematurely of their matches, curiously starting with Marc Roca on the second day and ending with Nicolás Gorosito last weekend at Carlos Belmonte, so rigorous that Albacete is going to the end, Appeal, to have him withdrawn. Conversely, Only those of García Plaza have suffered three expulsions against (two of them, in the same game). Between additions (239 'in favor) and subtractions (74' against), 165 minutes have passed in superiority.

And the Spanish? Although he had suffered expulsions in his meat from the aforementioned Roca, and following Miguelón Llambrich in Leganés and Lluís López in Las Palmas, both with yellow to a certain extent rigorous, in favor had not experienced any until last Monday in the Anxo Carro, against Lugo, when Marcelo Djaló saw his second yellow card in the 83rd minute of the game. Thus, your balance is negative: 93 minutes with one less and only seven with numerical superiority. That is, a -86 '.

In short, this other Mallorca-Espanyol referee ends with 251 more minutes playing against ten in the case of the vermilions, the fourth team with the most fouls in the Second Division, compared to Espanyol that, with all these data on the table, arrives suspiciously at Son Moix, hoping that the game of discipline, the referee and the VAR will not influence the sports result.