Leonardo, sanctioned with a match for the brawl at the Bernabéu

The PSG has emerged unscathed from the incidents that led Leonardo y Nasser Al-Khelaifi in the dressing room tunnel of the Santiago Bernabéu after the elimination of the Parisian squad at the hands of Real Madrid in the round of 16 last Champions League. The UEFA has announced today that it will punish Leonardo with a penalty game for “unsportsmanlike conduct”, a sanction without consequences for PSG because the Brazilian leader is no longer at the Parisian club and the president has not been punished.

On March 9, after forging the 3-1 defeat against Madrid that left PSG out of the Championsboth the president and the former sports director went down to the locker room area to rebuke Danny Makkeliethe Dutch referee, for not calling Karim Benzema’s foul on Gianluigi Donnarumma which led to a 1-1 draw and, later, the Whites’ comeback and the pass to the quarter-finals.

Leonardo and Nasser Al-Khelaïfi They left the box for the locker room “out of their minds, hitting walls and with a violent attitude,” Movistar journalist Mónica Marchante explained. According to other media, the president threatened to kill an employee of the Madrid who recorded the images. That video was delivered to the UEFA but it has never come to light publicly.

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