Spanish arbitration is not at the historical moment with the best reputation. The Negreira Case is used by Real Madrid to stir up the arbitration team and every day in the ten First Division matches, decisions full of controversy occur that condition … the final result of each duel and that enrages footballers, coaches and fans. He Sevilla He has not been immune to all this during the current season and last weekend, at the Santiago Bernabéu, he once again showed his disagreement with the performance carried out by the team he managed. Muñiz Ruizmatch referee.
Matias Almeyda has been questioning for a long time why Sevilla is the team that has seen the most yellow cards so far in the championship. At the Santiago Bernabéu there were seven cards of this color that Muñiz Ruiz showed, two of them leading (for assuming a double warning) in the expulsions of Almeyda and Marcao. Beyond the Sevilla coach, who in the subsequent press conference harshly criticized the management of the game carried out by the Galician referee, and Marcao, who is exposed to a harsh sanction for what was reflected in the report, Lucien Agoumé could not contain himself, despite trying, to call into question what had happened on the pitch. Likewise, Isaac Romero, when he was leaving the field after being substituted, told the fourth referee that “we can’t give a card for everything.”
The seven cards shown by Muñiz Ruiz raise Sevilla’s score to 55 yellow cards during the competition and consolidate it as the most carded LaLiga team (we must add the direct red seen by Isaac in the derby) with a very notable difference with respect to their closest pursuer, Rayo Vallecano with 44 yellow cards and three red. No team in the five major European leagues has seen more than 42 yellow cards.
Agoumé and José Ángel Carmonaamong those reprimanded at the Bernabéu, appear as the footballers who have seen the most yellow cards to date with seven in their accounts. In fact, the Frenchman was the first player in the competition to have to serve a one-match suspension, in November, for this reason. Little He returned to the team in Madrid after missing the duel against Oviedo due to an accumulation of warnings.
Sevilla has been at the top of the sanctions list for practically the entire season against Almeyda’s disbelief who already during the month of November showed their indignation at this fact by considering that they are not worthy of leading this dishonorable classification: «I believe that we should not hit. It’s one thing to play hard and another to hit. This team doesn’t make time, this team doesn’t give up, this team doesn’t provoke. And are we the ones who are most admonished? I’m not going to accept that. Because it’s not true.” However, technicians such as Eder Sarabia, Hansi Flick and Marcelino They have warned when facing Sevilla about the aggressiveness with which the Nervionense team operates.
Since Almeyda uttered those words, the situation has been far from improving. The Sevilla coach himself has seen three yellow cards during the month of December all of them being to protest arbitration decisions. The Argentine has expressed his frustration for not being able to dialogue with the different referees always emphasizing that he does it with respect. His speech, due to the forcefulness with which it is expressed, has transcended local information.
The Christmas break now allows Almeyda’s coaching staff to study and reflect on what is the appropriate way to reduce the alarming number of warnings that not only condition the management of the matches in which the cards are shown, but also the planning of subsequent ones. The coach, who is a rookie on the Spanish football bench, He is the first one who must continue adapting to the new football reality that he has to live in..
