The punishment is confirmed! The Committee upholds the painful sanction against Vitor Roque

The FC Barcelona tried until the last moment avoid the sanction of Vitor Roque by the double yellow that received the past weekend in front of the Alavés, but finally has remained with the empty hands. Afterwards that the past Wednesday the Committee of Discipline announced the punishments for the day 24, with the included Brazilian, this Friday has arrived also the failure of the Committee of Appeal.

The Barça tried a new resource, appealing the party of punishment for his forward, the one who was expelled in front of the Alavés by a second yellow more than doubtful and that arrived to the few minutes of the first, and also of his goal in Vitoria. However, in the RFEF have decided to keep the decision of Competition, and like this has informed it the Committee of Appeal. The resolution prays that it has decided "desestimar the resource formulated by the FC Barcelona, confirming the agreement impugned that it contains in the resolution of the Committee of Discipline of date 7 February 2024", resolved the communiqué.

The communiqué tries not leaving place to doubts on the decision of the referee

The text of this Friday highlights equally that "the referee's record of the referred meeting, in the separated Incidences 1.- Players, under the epigraph To.- Cautions, literally transcribed, says: 'strike with the foot in the leg of an opponent of reckless way'", signals the communiqué. Besides, puntualiza on the appeal of the Barcelona club that "having examined reiteradamente the proof videográfica contributed, can appreciate as sure enough D. Vitor Hugo Roque Ferreira takes part in the launch of the game in question, making a compatible behaviour with the description contained in the record", ensures the Committee.

"In the present case, in sight of the documentation and the proof videográfica obrante in cars, to trial of this Committee of Appeal can not describe as impossible or of flagrant error the assessment that does the referee, when signalling in the record that the player of the FC Barcelona was admonished for hitting with his foot in the leg of a rival in the dispute of the balloon", analyses the communiqué, which does not leave doubt some that from the Committee, and the RFEF, back the interpretation of the referee Martínez Munuera, the one who besides has received the 'prize' of east in the Real Madrid-Girona of this weekend.