In a fight inside the area by the position, the player of the Real Madrid lost the papers and assaulted to Mandzukic. First it bit the arm to the player of the Athletic and afterwards gave him a punch. The referee did not see it but the UEFA could sanction to the white side
The party of gone of the quarter-finals of the League of Champions between the Athletic of Madrid and the Real Madrid (0-0) was intense to the maximum. The leading "colchonero" Mario Mandzukic was the victim of the two played extradeportivas of the party, both in the white area. In one, Sergio Bouquets gave him a codazo that opened him an eyebrow and finished sangrando. In the another, received a bite and a punch by part of Dani Carvajal. Hours afterwards, the side madridista denied to have bitten to the Croatian attacker, however, in the images seems quite clear. So much it is like this, that although the referee did not signal at all, the UEFA could act of job and sanction to the white side.
Bouquets did not want to feed the controversy neither think on the actions in which it bumped with Mario Mandzukic and Raúl García. "For this there is a referee", said. "My played with Mandzukic is with the balloon in the back, back without knowing that it is near". Hours afterwards, by means of his personal account of Twitter, Dani Carvajal said that it did not bite to the Croat of the Athletic of Madrid, Mario Mandzukic, in a played in which they exchanged hits and that has generated a big controversial. This yes, of the punch does not speak.
The images of television leave few doubts in this regard, however, Mandzukic has exculpado to Carvajal. In a message in Twitter, the Croatian forward has exculpado to the side Dani Carvajal to have it bitten and has described the party of "very hard" but has left clear that all what happened does not go further of the terrain of game. "Good morning! The party of yesterday was very hard and the two teams gave it everything, but for me there was not any controversy, neither bite, neither at all".