Competition keeps the yellow card to Modric

The Competition Committee has ratified the yellow card that Luka Modric saw last Saturday in the match against Celta de Vigo: The 80th minute of the game was passing, when the Croatian quarterback gave a pass by throwing himself into the front of the Madrid area. After the pass, Celtiña Tapia fell to the grass, which led the match referee, Melero López, to signal a foul and admonish the madridista: “In minute 80 the player (10) Modric, Luka was cautioned for the following reason: Recklessly knocking down an opponent in the dispute for the ball.” This is how the motif of the yellow card reads in the minutes of the match.

However, observing the images, it is seen how Modric arrives much earlier to give the pass than to knock down the celestial player. For Iturralde González, AS collegiate, “It is a play of football bad luck, in which Modric clears and the Celta player arrives half a second late. For me it is a play where Modric clears clearly, without infraction. He wins the dispute because he arrives much earlier. Another thing is that Modric's entry would have been reckless, which is not the case. “

The situation is that Competition endorses the referee's decision and ratifies the yellow card. And what has motivated the anger of the white team that does not understand that that card is not raised: they consider that the Croatian touched the ball long before the Peruvian, who fell when he could not reach the ball. The club sent a video with the play seen from several shots, in which it is seen how Modric wants to clear the ball, which he does, rather than committing a foul.

Something that the white set does not quite understand or understand. Within the white entity they believe that there is no punishable action by the Croatian: “This type of fault occurs in all matches and is not indicated”, they explain.

The Committee understands that none of the assumptions concur to understand that there was an error in the arbitration record, since “Deriving clearly from the images provided the existence of contact between the admonished player and the opposing player in the game to which the record refers, this Committee cannot consider the presumption of veracity of the same to be disproved., being in any case the assessment of whether or not there is a reckless action and whether or not there is a punishable demolition, issues in which the technical criterion of the referee cannot be replaced by the very respectable one held by said club or by the one that may have the Committee itself “, thus rejecting the allegations and confirming the reprimand under article 111.1a of the Disciplinary Code with an accessory fine to the club of 180 euros in application of article 52.

Now it will be Appeal who decides what finally happens with the card to Modric. The yellow is the third that the Croatian has seen in the league championship. The first saw it in the match against Betis (2-3), and the second against Sevilla (0-1), both for knocking down two rivals.

Sanctioned with a match

Apart from the yellow card to Modric, five First Division players have been sanctioned by the Competition Committee after the dispute on the twenty-eighth day. Those sanctioned, all due to accumulation of reprimands, are Jon Moncayola (Osasuna), the Belgian Yannick Carrasco (Atlético de Madrid), the Chilean Fabián Orellana (Valladolid), and the Argentines Lucas Boyé (Elche) and Juan Foyth (Villarreal).

He has also been sanctioned with a match, for insults, threats and provocations, the delegate of Villarreal, Xisco Nadal, who was expelled after the encounter with Cádiz, according to the minutes of César Soto Grado, “for confronting an opponent in a violent manner causing a massive confrontation.”