No surprises in the appointment of the referee of the Classic

The collegiate José María Sánchez Martínez has been the designated by the Real Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF) to direct the Classical of this next Sunday, corresponding to the ninth day of LaLiga, that will contest in Santiago Bernabeu from the 16.25 hours. The murciano already pitó the first classical of the year happened in the Bernabéu, with triumph of the Real Madrid in that occasion on the FC Barcelona.

The referee, of 39 years, was like main judge in the triumph of the whites 2-1. It will be the sixth Classical that will direct Sánchez Martínez, that will be helped in the bands by Raúl Cabañero Martínez and Juan José López Mir, the fourth referee will be Jorge Díaz Escudero, in the VAR will be the Canarian Alejandro José Hernández Hernández beside Roberto Díaz Pérez of the Dovecot.

In spite of the last precedent, the general balance of Sánchez Martínez in the classical is favourable to the Barcelona, that have imposed in three of the five clashes in which they have been directed by the murciano, by two victories of the Madrid. The first party between culés and madridistas traces back to the 2017 when pitó the turn of the Supercopa in the Bernabéu. It was the first triumph of the whites, that would not go back to win a classical with Sánchez Martínez until the 2021.

Far memories

The Barça, instead, has imposed in the rest of duels. The first, in December of 2017. A party of League in the Bernabeu that carried the Catalan group by 0-3 and in which Carvajal was expelled after avoiding a goal with the hand. In October of 2018 would direct his first classical in the Camp Nou, the first also in which there was VAR and in which the videoarbitraje helped to determine a penalti of Varane on Suárez.

The Uruguayan would aim a hat-trick in the goleada 5-1 of the team. In February of 2019 the referee murciano would go back to pitar a duel between whites and Barcelona, this time in Glass of Rey, and also with victory of the Barça by 3-0 in a moment that served to leave sentenced the project of Santiago Solari in the bench of the Madrid, that had arrived after the dismissal of Lopetegui.