Two
red cards in the midweek round of league games, Celta's Vagner and Sevilla's
Javi Navarro. Vagner got his marching orders in the closing minutes of the game
against Deportivo for aiming a vicious kick at the back of Diego
Tristán's legs as he held the ball up by the corner flag, and the
excitable Brazilian midfielder made matters a lot worse for himself insulting
the referee badly before leaving the field. Javi Navarro picked up a second
yellow card near the end of Sevilla's game at Osasuna, not a serious event but
having already served a four match ban earlier in the season he could get a
bigger suspension too. Not too many players expecting a ban for this weekend,
with according to our records Salgado (Real Madrid) reaching the ten yellow
card threshold and three others on five, Torres Gómez and Caminero at
Valladolid and Pablo at Zaragoza, although some reports say Mallorca's Nadal
was also given his fifth last Wednesday. (08.02.02)
P.S. Torres Gómez and Nadal were not
suspended but Espanyol's Lopo was. |
