Gil Manzano's performance will go down in history, by successes or mistakes, in the history of our football. is the the first time in the history of the League in which Real Madrid have been awarded three penalties against in the same party. The Extremaduran did it (four were launched, by repeating the first one) and it is a very unusual fact. It has never happened in league history to Barcelona or Atlético …
According to the statistics provided by Mr. ChipThis circumstance that you get three penalties against you has only happened nine times previously in the history of LaLiga. It started with the Sabadell (1935) and followed the Lleida (1950), precisely the Valencia (1951), Celtic (1958), suffered it twice Osasuna (1994 and 1999) and already in this century Getafe (2015) and Sporting de Gijón (2016). The other great Asturian club, Oviedo, currently holds the absolute record, with four maximum penalties against, in a match in 1996.
Gil Manzano's role generated and will generate rivers of ink. He also occupied the radio waves. Antón Meana asked to step in Sports Carousel to talk about the feeling in Las Rozas, at the headquarters of the Federation, the role of Gil Manzano. “Very good” is the rating given to the Extremaduran referee. Nor did they find things to object to Iglesias Villanueva in his performance on the VAR monitors. “The VAR has made the Spanish referees worse, they have lost personality, they have to make them see it …”, Iturralde intervened later in the same program. The events of a night passed through the arbitration screen reached Barcelona. 'The no more VAR: three penalties against Madrid!', He titled Sport. 'VARapalo to Madrid' it was the pun of Sports world.
Gil Manzano checks the VAR in the Mestalla match, in the presence of Zidane.
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A night that Gil Manzano will probably not forget despite the fact that the Extremadura committee's referee was preparing for a celebration. In Mestalla he equaled Carmona Méndez as the referee of this community with the most matches in the First Division, with 160 games.
The funny thing is that it is, with Gil Manzano, Madrid had only lost until yesterday three times in 32 games with him at the whistle and the maximum paradox: He is one of the referees who has awarded the most penalties for the Madrid club, with 11 …