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Leo Messi and Antoine Griezmann, celebrating a goal with the Barça

They WERE APERCIBIDOS

El FC Barcelona respira: Messi, Griezmann y Semedo estarán contra el Bayern

Published:9/08/2020 - 07:50h

Updated:9/08/2020 - 07:50h

The new norms of the UEFA for the Champions League will allow that the apercibidos of the FC Barcelona have been able to 'clean' of yellow for the final to eight of Lisbon

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The UEFA entered from this same month of August the variants of the norms of the regulation approved by the IFAB, by what began to affect from this same Friday to the duels of Champions League. The referee's managers of the UEFA wanted to implant the measures with immediacy and one of them supposed an authentic break for the FC Barcelona, that this Saturday achieved to delete to the Naples and put in the final to eight of Lisbon.

By means of his Executive Committee, the maximum European organism decided the elimination of the yellow cardboards accumulated when finalising the round of the eighth of final so much of the Champions League as of the rest of above-mentioned competitions, reason by which the players that were apercibidos of sanction will arrive clean to quarter-finals. In the FC Barcelona, until three players could clean of yellow.

It treats of Leo Messi, Antoine Griezmann and Nélson Semedo, three footballers that were to an alone cardboard to lose the party of quarter-finals against the Bayern of Munich. Nevertheless, the three were with great care in this appearance and, to the not being admonished, will be able to, no only play in front of the Bavarian team, but do it beginning his cycle of yellow cards with the counter to zero.

On this new norm, the UEFA explained in his communiqué that "with the end to go back to create the same balance of parties that remained after the elimination of the yellow cards slopes, the Executive Committee of the UEFA has decided to anticipate this date for the cards received by the players and technical body to after the eighth in place of after the chambers".

It is necessary to remember that, during the previous seasons, the cautions accumulated until quarter-finals and, from the semfinales, the players cleaned of yellow cardboards and remained free of suspension for fulfilling cycle. In the current circumstances, when being to only party all the eliminatory of the final to eight, did not have felt to clean in semifinals, by what will advance the measure to the chambers.

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