OFFICIAL! Xavi will serve a two-match ban for the red card against Atletico

Published:21/03/2024 - 11:51h

Updated:21/03/2024 - 20:24h

The RFEF's Competition Committee has delivered its decisions on the punishments after matchday 29 of LaLiga and Xavi Hernández finally knows if he will be able to be on the bench in the Clasico on April 21

Xavi Hernández was expelled the past Sunday in the party in front of the Athletic of Madrid and for this Thursday he and the FC Barcelona were attentive to know the punishment that had to fulfil for having received a red direct by part of the referee Sánchez Martínez. The morning of this Thursday has arrived the official communiqué by part of the Committee of Competition and the Catalan has been sanctioned by two parties.

Of this form, Xavi will lose the two next meetings of LaLiga in front of the UD The Palms in the estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys of Montjuïc, the Saturday 30 March after the stop of selection. Neither it will be able to be in the bench in front of the Cádiz in the New Mirandilla the Saturday 13 April, with both parties playing to the 21:00 hours.

Xavi will be able to try tumbar to the Madrid in the Bernabéu

But inside the negative that it will be this for the Barça, and in the previous of what will be the start of the eliminatory of quarter-finals of the Champions League in front of the PSG, where logically the egarense yes will be able to be present, the Catalan group himself that has the confirmation of something positive. And it is that with this punishment Xavi ensures his presence in the Classical in front of the Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabéu next Sunday 21 April.