LaLiga would opt for Gil Manzano as referee for the Clásico in Montjuïc

The Technical Committee of Referees of the Real Spanish Federation of Football will announce the Thursday the referee designated for the first Classical of the season to contest the Saturday in the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys of Montjuïc from the 16:15 (CEST). As it advances 'Relief', the favourite for the duel of the day 11 of LaLiga between the FC Barcelona and the Real Madrid is Jesús Gil Manzano, with the one who the culés have had several bad memories the past season.

The referee extremeño was protagonist in the last previous day to the stop mundialista in November of 2022 when it expelled to Robert Lewandowski in Pamplona by double caution and, besides, signalled an offensive gesture of the Pole that cost to the '9' a sanction of three parties. The designation bases in that Gil Manzano does not have pitado any party of the Barça this season and only has arbitrated to the Madrid in the day 1 in front of the Athletic of Bilbao (triumph 'merengue' by 0-2).

Gil Manzano goes to by his third Classical of League

The one of Don Benito carried the reins of a Classical for the last time on 10 April 2021, when it had to replace to the lesionado Mateu Lahoz in the crash contested in Valdebebas. Without public by the restrictions of the pandemia, the Madrid won by the minimum (2-1) a party in which Gil Manzano admonished to Nacho and expelled to Casemiro (by double yellow) in the venues, whereas the Barça finish with four apercibidos (Araújo, Pedri and Jordi Alba, in addition to Gerard Hammered in the bench).

Curiously, that was the last Classical of Leo Messi in LaLiga. Karim Benzema and Toni Kroos did the white goals, whereas the so much culé converted it Óscar Mingueza. The another Classical pitado by the referee extremeño was the first of the season 2013/14, where the whites also imposed home (3-1). Neymar Advanced to the culés in the beginning of the party, but the venues gave it gone back with a penalti of Cristiano Ronaldo and the goals of Pepe and Benzema in the complement.

The Madrid, with favourable balance with Gil Manzano

In the middle of the scandal by the 'case Negreira' and the interminable 'lloros' madridistas by the arbitration of Ricardo of Boroughs Bengoetxea the Saturday in Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, the RFEF would bend by a referee that is used to to favour to the 'merengues' with his controversial decisions. In addition to the positive balance in Classical, the Madrid did not lose with Gil Manzano the past season (4 triumphs and 1 tie), whereas the Barça had balance of 2 victories and 2 defeats when it had to lidiar with the one of Badahoz. All these parties, included the two Classical mentioned, went with the culés like visitors.