The Real Spanish Federation of Football already has announced who will be the referees of the meeting between the FC Barcelona and the Osasuna, that will play next Wednesday in the Montjuïc, corresponding to the Day 20 of LaLiga. This duel will carry out in this date due to the fact that when originally it went to play, both square were in Saudi Arabia to contest the Supercopa of Spain.
The main judge will be Jorge Figueroa Vásquez and will be assisted in the VAR by Valentín Pizarro Gómez. It is necessary recalcar that the Barcelona cast has added very good results in the parties in which the sevillano has been the main referee, having won four of the five commitments and empatado the remaining.
The antecedents of the FC Barcelona with Figueroa Vásquez
In this season 23/24, the Barça and Figueroa Vásquez have not seen the faces. The last duel traces back to the campaign 22/23, specifically in the Day 37 of LaLiga, where the Catalan picture won to the RCD Mallorca by 3-0. Before this, the referee sevillano gave justice in two clashes of the period 21/22 against the Alavés, with a victory by 0-1 (Day 22) and a tie to a goal (Day 12).
In the season 20/21, also arbitrated a duel of the FC Barcelona against the Getafe CF (Day 31), where sanctioned a penalti in favour of the blaugranas (fault of Sofian Chakla on Antoine Griezmann) and another against (Ronald Araújo on Enes Ünal), that was reviewed in the VAR because of his rigurosidad. In spite of his validation and back annotation, did not have a big impact in the commitment, that finished 5-2 in favour of the culés.
In this same campaign, directed another clash of the Barcelonan square against the Alavés (Day 23), that finished 5-1 in favour of the Barcelona, and to the equal that in the majority of the parties that has arbitrated of the Barcelona, there was not a lot of controversy in the results.
The precedents of the Osasuna with Figueroa Vásquez
Regarding the Osasuna, has been arbitrated by Figueroa Vásquez in 18 occasions, with six victories, eight ties and four defeats. In the duels of the 'rojillos' has showed a big tendency to resort to the cautions, since it has taken out no less than 48 yellow cards, besides has expelled them a player and has sanctioned them a penalti against.