Despite the end of season
tension there was only one red card for an outfield player in the midweek round
of games, and even that was overturned on appeal. Sevilla's Medel was the
unlucky man after picking up two bookings late on in the game at Osasuna, the
disciplinary committee ruling that one of the yellow cards was incorrectly
shown. Levante's delegate Andrés Garcerá was also shown a red
card after a second ball was thrown on the pitch near the end of the match
against Barcelona, and although his club appealed that he had nothing to do
with the incident, he was still fined. Ten players will miss the weekend games
after completing the five yellow card cycle, including Bilbao's Gurpegui who is
the second man after Puñal to reach the 15 card threshold. Bernadello
(Almería), Ujfalusi (Atlético), Aguilar (Hércules), Lass
(Real Madrid) and Zokora (Sevilla) all picked up their tenth bookings, and
Camacho and Duda (both Málaga), Toño (Racing) and Tamudo (Real
Sociedad) were all given their fifth. (13.05.11) |