Carrying on the theme from last week about international referees, this week we were told that the Champions League tie between Atlético and Barcelona was going to be officiated by the best referee in the world, Italy’s Nicola Rizzoli. He was no Colina though (he wasn’t even bald!), and there were many questions about his performance, not least of which that last minute hand ball by Gabi in the Atlético area which he gave as a free kick outside of the box. That may have cost Barcelona the triple, but up to that point he had favoured the Catalans if anything, letting Piqué off a penalty appeal for hands, failing to penalize Luis Suárez for flattening his fellow countryman Godín with a flying elbow, and only showing Iniesta a yellow card when he gave away the earlier penalty instead of a red. Back home it was another relatively quiet week, and once again there were no red cards. You know, we think we prefer our lot to all those “extranjeros”! (18.04.16)
Name | Games played | Yellow cards | Red cards | Total |
Iglesias Villanueva | 21 | 144 | 12 | 156 |
Sánchez Martínez | 19 | 135 | 9 | 144 |
Clos Gómez | 21 | 136 | 8 | 144 |
Del Cerro Grande | 21 | 135 | 6 | 141 |
González González | 22 | 131 | 8 | 139 |
Velasco Carballo | 20 | 128 | 10 | 138 |
Fernández Borbolán | 20 | 119 | 9 | 128 |
Gil Manzano | 19 | 119 | 3 | 122 |
Estrada Fernández | 20 | 111 | 8 | 119 |
Prieto Iglesias | 20 | 116 | 3 | 119 |